Can anybody get the rest of this article?

[MelissaB]

Will voting machines make special election suspect?

By Thomas D. Elias
Friday, July 22, 2005

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Even before Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger officially called a special election for Nov. 8, his critics ascribed the action to a desire to rebuild and buff his image through unlimited campaign spending -- which would not be allowed if he had let his pet measures slide until next June's regularly scheduled primary.

Link: http://www.sddt.com/news/article.cfm?SourceCode=20050722tza



Evidently you have to be a suscriber and purchase a subscription. It looks interesting, and I'd like to see it.

[NMDemDist2]

1. careful of copyright infringements here, they charge for a reason I think

just saying.....

[MelissaB]

2. Could we not post the 4 paragraphs if somebody suscribes

or can get it?

[NMDemDist2]

3. I believe that is allowed as per the rules, I just wanted to make sure the

whole article wasn't posted. Thanks for understanding :)

[ScamUSA.Com]

5. DU posting rules makes sense to avoid any potential issues

but technically you can post full articles for the purposes of news reporting and commentary, according to the copyright act of 1976

[tommcintyre]

4. Here ya go

http://thevalleychronicle.com/articles/2005/07/15/opinion/06elias.txt
Opinion

Will voting machines make election suspect?

By THOMAS D. ELIAS/SoCal Focus
Thomas D. Elias

Even before Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger officially called a special election for Nov. 8, his critics ascribed the action to a desire to rebuild and buff his image through unlimited campaign spending - which would not be allowed if he had let his pet measures slide until next June's regularly scheduled primary.

And it's true there are no limits on what Schwarzenegger can raise for the November vote, while strict limits would apply in June.

But some of his harsher and more cynical critics are claiming he's got another motive: to make sure the vote is greased in his favor.

"The real reason Arnold is calling a special election is to make sure it is fixed," claimed one occasional blogger based in Davis.
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[MelissaB]

6. That was a great read. Thanks, tommcintyre! Here is another snip:

Why does this raise suspicions? Because tests done in a variety of venues, including Maryland's Johns Hopkins University, have shown voting software can be hacked to make yes votes show up as no, or the reverse.

Those tests are the reason conspiracy theorists still insist that President Bush's 2004 reelection victory was faked, that Walden O'Dell, the major Cleveland-area Republican fund-raiser who also chairs America's biggest electronic voting machine maker, Diebold Election Systems, made good on his 2003 boast to Bush: "We will bring in Ohio for you."

The reason for the mistrust is simple: Without paper trails, recounts don't matter. All a recount means is that the same buttons get pushed again, producing the same results.

There are been plenty of apparently innocent problems with electronic voting, too. In Alameda County during the March 2004 primary, problems with Diebold "smart card" encoders affected 25 percent of county polling places, preventing thousands of voters from casting ballots when they wished.