>Why should we believe the election officials or the black box >manufacturers that the count is accurate? The officials can test >the machines before the election day for various scenarios. The >manufacturer can have various internal quality testing. Yet, it >only takes one not-so-honest programmer to do something like the >following to skew the tallies on the election day.
Recall the rigged California gas pumps of a few years ago. Observing that the state pump testers consistently bought certain quantities of gas the pumps were programmed to not cheat customers who bought those specific amounts. Due to this, it took years to discover the pumps were rigged. ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
