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[ale] Its over. Maybe
- Subject: [ale] Its over. Maybe
- From: jimpop at yahoo.com (Jim Popovitch)
- Date: Wed Nov 3 22:04:08 2004
- In-reply-to: <1099535141.10772.75.camel@juanita>
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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.