I wonder with what kind of machines the punch-card machines will be 
replaced. Electronic voting machines have been getting bad reviews. From an 
article in Slate:

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After the hanging-chad fiasco of the 2000 presidential election, Congress 
funded a nationwide drive to replace punch-card ballots and lever-operated 
voting machines in time for November 2004. The Help America Vote Act of 
2002, or HAVA, authorized $3.9 billion over three years to help state and 
local governments upgrade their election equipment. The only replacements 
being considered seriously are electronic voting booths: stand-alone kiosks 
for which voters are given an encrypted smartcard that identifies them to 
the computer and lets them vote exactly once. But a report released last 
week by the Information Security Institute at Johns Hopkins University says 
the touch-screen machines are Swiss cheese—full of holes—for hackers. 
"Common voters, without any insider privileges, can cast unlimited votes 
without being detected," the report claims. It's based on an analysis of 
the software source code for voting machines made by Diebold Election 
Systems, a division of a company that makes automated teller machines. 
Someone at Diebold accidentally placed the code on a publicly accessible 
Internet server in January, resulting in its dissemination around the Net.

Full article at
http://slate.msn.com/id/2086455/


At 01:53 PM 9/15/2003 -0400, Wirt Atmar wrote:
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>
>September 15, 2003
>California's Recall Election Is Postponed
>By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
>
>SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- A federal appeals court postponed California's Oct. 7
>gubernatorial recall election, ruling the historic vote cannot proceed as
>scheduled because some votes would be cast using outmoded punch-card ballot
>machines.

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Tom Brandt
Northtech Systems, Inc.
130 S. 1st Street, Suite 220
Ann Arbor, MI 48104-1343
http://www.northtech.com/

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