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Colorado Lawsuit Seeks to Ban Computer Voting

Published: Mon 18 Sep 2006 12:13 AM
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Suit: Ban Computer Voting
Attorney fears fraud, says state "headed for train wreck" in November.
By Ann Imse
Rocky Mountain News
Friday 15 September 2006
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Voting on computer screens is so vulnerable to massive fraud that Colorado's November election is "headed for a train wreck," says an attorney who is seeking to have the equipment barred at trial next week.
An expert would need just 2 minutes to reprogram and distort votes on a Diebold, one of four brands of computerized voting systems attacked in the suit, says attorney Paul Hultin. His firm, Wheeler Trigg Kennedy, has taken on the case pro bono for a group of 13 citizens of various political stripes.
And he's not the only one alarmed as details of the case spread this week.
The Colorado Democratic Party on Thursday urged all voters to cast absentee ballots for the November election to avoid potential fraud, after a key state official said in a deposition that he certified the computer voting equipment even though he has no college education in computer science and did little security testing.
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