WEDW 09/15/03 - 7:22 PM... his supporters, sheriff s deputies, boldly showed off precinct 13 s ballot box, that they had presumably stuffed you start this just by hitting start reporter: but that can t happen with touch-screen machines, says deborah seiler, west coast representative for diebold, which provides the machines used in alameda county how do you know that this machine is actually recording the fact that you voted for robert frost for poet laureate how do you know the machine isn t fooling you and voting for carl sandberg instead before every single election, there are extensive, what we call logic and accuracy test procedures that are followed and alameda county follows a very rigorous pre-election testing process to test that very thing reporter: computer scientists at johns hopkins university released a study this summer that indicates the software in some deibold voting machines had significant and wide- reaching security vulnerabilities and that a malevolent developer could easily make changes to the code that prompted maryland and ohio to put orders for the machines on hold...
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