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Who is to say the votes could not be changed between the machine that
"writes" the card and the machine that "reads" them? 

Now I know what your gonna say, thats not a flaw of the machines.  I say it is,
if they were done correctly the data on the card would be encrypted with a key 
that only existed on the reader and the writer (or some better scheme, I am
no security expert).

The ultimate machine would have a voter verified paper trail AND cheap WORM
media...

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Popovitch <jimpop at yahoo.com>
Sent: Nov 3, 2004 10:05 PM
To: ALE <ale at ale.org>
Subject: Re: [ale] Its over. Maybe

On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 21:25 -0500, Jeff Hubbs wrote:

> on one hand you have a computer that is used to determine how much fuel
> to shoot into a car engine's cylinders and the other you have a massive
> system of computers whose combined output is used to decide who the 
> President of the United States is? 

That's a long stretch.  You are equating the Diebold machines to the
Borg.  Hardly.  Each Diebold machine is independent and just dumps out a
simple set of metrics.  They are NOT networked together and, as I
understand it, based on my experience yesterday, only record your vote
on a memory-card to be read elsewhere.  By concept it is no different
then a paper card reader, other than hanging-chads are not allowed in
binary. ;)

-Jim P.

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