For some, the fat lady hasn't sung yet (on voting/election)

[wildflower]

From the Minneapolis Star Tribune. This article generally paints voter fraud believers as conspiracy theorists, but there are some good points, where specific examples are cited. If you can, please go and read the whole article to see. I couldn't fit everything here in four paragraphs.
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For some, the fat lady hasn't sung yet
Julia Malone, Cox News Service
November 10, 2004 ELECT1110

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Sen. John Kerry conceded, President Bush declared victory and planning for the second term is well under way at the White House.

But some of the disappointed supporters of the Democratic challenger are not giving up, at least not yet. Fueled by skepticism about voting machinery and vivid memories of the election debacle in Florida four years ago, conspiracy theories are swirling on the Internet.

snip

In North Carolina, an estimated 4,500 votes were lost altogether because computer voting machines were allowed to be overloaded. And an unknown number of voters around the country have complained about problems with touch-screen machines that appeared to record a different candidate from the one the voters chose.

The group Blackboxvoting. org, founded by computer programmer Bev Harris, who works from her home from Seattle, warned before Election Day that the electronic voting systems could be easily hacked. Her Internet site alleges that it has documents that prove fraud and asks for donations to pursue the charge.

the rest of the article is at

http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/5077645.html

[crispini]

1. Well, I wasn't really fond of that, but there were

some good points. I liked the last two paragraphs:

"Cindy Cohn, legal director for the non-partisan tech group Electronic Frontier Foundation, which has been closely following electronic voting problems, concurred that there were many problems. She said her group has questions about whether computerized machines malfunctioned in some areas and would be seeking legal authority to examine equipment in a handful of counties.

Cohn cautioned that she knows of no errors large enough to change the outcome, considering the size of the Bush margin. "We just need to sort out what the hard facts are," she said."

I heartily concur. This is a bipartisan consumer protection issue.

[yowzayowzayowza]

2. That's funny....

Bev's a programmer now.

[Eloriel]

3. Kick

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