Reply #150: Come on. I could create custom Access vote counting by myself

[stickdog]

for less than 100 billable hours.

1) Why would you want to use Oracle or SQL server when MySQL and PostgreSQL are more robust, more secure and free of charge?

2) The only reason there aren't more vendors with off-the-shelf vote tabulation products is because 99.9% of the thousands of vendors who create far more complicated, robust and secure database applications DAILY realize that you don't sell applications like this based on their merit, but based on your lobbyist budget and your inside connections. Surely, being a professional yourself, you must realize that Diebold's product is nothing special.

3) I'm not arguing that election fraud occurred on any huge scale. I'm arguing that -- regardless of any questions -- the public (and certainly the DEMOCRATIC PARTY upon their request) should be able to freely examine the entire database schema used to store the voting information of any public election.