Hack the Vote
By Paul Krugman
The New York Times
Tuesday 02 December 2003
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Inviting Bush supporters to a fund-raiser, the host wrote, "I am committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes
to the president next year." No surprise there. But Walden O'Dell — who says that he wasn't talking about his business
operations — happens to be the chief executive of Diebold Inc., whose touch-screen voting machines are in increasingly
widespread use across the United States.
For example, Georgia — where Republicans scored spectacular upset victories in the 2002 midterm elections — relies
exclusively on Diebold machines. To be clear, though there were many anomalies in that 2002 vote, there is no evidence
that the machines miscounted. But there is also no evidence that the machines counted correctly. You see, Diebold
machines leave no paper trail.
Representative Rush Holt of New Jersey, who has introduced a bill requiring that digital voting machines leave a paper
trail and that their software be available for public inspection, is occasionally told that systems lacking these
safeguards haven't caused problems. "How do you know?" he asks.
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