"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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Sancho began investigating the problem after watching the votes come in
during the infamous 2000 presidential election. In Volusia County precinct
216, a memory card added more than 200 votes to George W. Bush's total and
subtracted 16,000 votes from Al Gore. The mistake was later corrected
during a hand count.

After watching his computer expert change vote totals this week, Sancho
said that he now believes someone on the inside did the same thing in
Volusia County in 2000.

"Someone with access to the vote center in Volusia County put it on a
memory card and uploaded it into the main system," Sancho said.

The same Diebold voting machines are still being used in Volusia,
Brevard, Seminole and Osceola counties. They are also used in 26 other
counties across the state.

The old machines do have a paper trail but the new electronic touch-screen
machines do not. And if there's no paper trail, elections officials have
to rely on the accuracy of the machines.
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Volusia County has the optical scan system that can be verified by a hand
count. There is a paper ballot for verification of a vote. No, it's not a
"chad" system. The current controversy is for the handicapped voting
machines that the government requires by Jan 1, they are only electronic,
can be hacked, and there is no paper verification. Volusia County council
just voted to purchase a new style of voting machine that will have a paper
"backup" for both regular and handicapped voters. Without verification of
the vote, and the voter, there cannot be true accountable election.