Dem Now! Covers E-Voting Issue Finally

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Wed, Mar 10, 2004 10:36AM

David Dill only got to speak for small portions, and way too much time was given to the slow talking woman from San Diego who brought a voting machine home to her house. But overall it was pretty good. Dill got his points out, and the dire nature of the situation - paraphrasing: "Would you allow private corporations to take your votes and count them behind closed doors? Because that's what it is." And that makes you realize how much the corporate control of our lives is happening now, the whole thing, evey inch of the fake democracy that it is.

Wednesday, March 10th, 2004
Miscounts, Changed Votes, No Paper Trail: Is Electronic Voting a Threat to Democracy?
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Malfunctioning software in electronic voting machines has already caused confusion or possibly faulty vote tallies in races across the country. We speak with a San Diego poll worker about problems she witnessed with voting machines, a member of Pax Christi USA, which will send international monitors to observe the presidential election in Florida and a computer science professor who has led the charge calling for a paper trail to record votes.

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