Reply #68: Some info on Optical Scanners:

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The Diebold optical scan system uses a dangerous programming
> methodology, with an executable program living inside the electronic
> ballot box. This method is the equivalent of having a little man
> living in the ballot box, holding an eraser and a pencil. With an
> executable program in the memory card, no Diebold opti-scan ballot box
> can be considered "empty" at the start of the election.
>
> The Black Box Voting team proved that the Diebold optical scan
> program, housed on a chip inside the voting machine, places a call to
> a program living in the removable memory card during the election. The
> demonstration also showed that the executable program on the memory
> card (ballot box) can easily be changed, and that checks and balances,
> required by FEC standards to catch unauthorized changes, were not
> implemented by Diebold -- yet the system was certified anyway.
>
www.ballotintegrity.org/DCForumID1/354.html
OPTICAL SCAN MACHINES HACKED IN FLORIDA:
> http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/1954/5921.html