Conyers, Greens convinced of integrity of vote - Why am I not reassured?

[UdoKier]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/12/21/ohio.vote.ap/index.html

Observers rule out computer tampering
Tuesday, December 21, 2004 Posted: 8:15 AM EST (1315 GMT)

LOGAN, Ohio (AP) -- Election officials watched Monday as a technician repeated a repair he had made to a vote tallying computer, then announced they had found no evidence of any sort of tampering, despite a congressman's request for an FBI probe.

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Elections officials, a Green Party representative, prosecutors and an officer who investigates computer crimes were among the observers Monday as the same technician repeated the repair and answered questions.

Rapp explained that the 14-year-old computer's battery needed for rebooting was low. The technician swapped the hard drive to a newer machine to read the information needed for reboot before reinstalling it in the original.

"During this whole process, the ballots were locked up," Rapp said.

Uh, yeah, the ballots weren't touched but what "information needed to reboot" was being uploaded? The logarithm that tells the tabulator how many votes to add to Bush's tally for every Kerry vote?

Was this recount all done on tabulators? Wasn't there supposed to be a hand recount? Doesn't Canada count ALL its votes, by hand, on one night?

I wish I felt reassured by this story.