"William December Starr" <wdstarr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> In article <ev9lvd$elv$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> Jon Schild <jjs@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> said:
>
>> Sorry, you need to hire a fact checker. I can't speak for every
>> state, but I am an election official in one, and I know for an
>> absolute fact that in my state votes are NOT transferred over
>> internet, just to avoid this problem. The memory card is
>> physically removed from each voting machine in each precinct, and
>> they are sealed up and moved under guard to a central location
>> where they are placed one by one in a separate machine that
>> records and counts them. The votes are re****ted from the counting
>> location in each county, and stored in each county. There is
>> NEVER any transfer by internet, telephone line, or other easily
>> tamperable medium. Do you think all the election officials in the
>> country are total fools?
>
> They don't _all_ have to be, just the subset of them that make
> the rules. And of course "corrupt" can replace "stupid."
I don't know what state Jon is in, but it's also true in California the
the
memory card is physcially removed from the machine and taken to the
headquarters.
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