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I haven't been following the electronic voting controversy aside from "voter-verified good, no audit trail bad". This Salon interview with Bev Harris blows the doors right off this scandal. Harris uncovered internal memos that show that Diebold knew about security flaws two years ago and didn't fix them. Most unbelievable is that Diebold's centralized vote database, GEMS, is easily hackable over the internet! (What do you expect: it stores the votes in a Microsoft Access file.) And since GEMS counts optical scan ballots as well as Diebold touch screen computer ballots, not even voter-verified ballots are safe (though you can do a hand recount with optical scan).

These people need to be stopped.