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Thursday, November 2, 2006 12:00 AM

"Hacking Democracy"

On Tuesday, 40 percent of voters will cast ballots on electronic touch-screens. If you're not worried already about the dangers of paperless voting, this HBO documentary will blow your mind.

By Farhad Manjoo

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006 07:14 PM

Chicanery has always been a part of American elections.

We would have honest voting if American politicians and bureaucrats wanted it. We don’t, so why is everyone so surprised? Are we truly so naïve to think that all of this is unintentional?

Can anyone honestly examine the entire political system of the United States and not conclude that it has been totally co-opted from top to bottom?

Diebold controls billions of dollars in ATM transactions every day without allegations of fraud, but can’t design a transparent voting machine system.

I have worked with information technology for thirty-five years and I trust electronic voting about as much as I trust electronic slot machines.

—vaporland Read vaporland's other letters

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