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Eloriel

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Thu Nov-25-04 10:58 AM
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4. I'm not sure that's true about Diebold

Well, on a *Diebold* system, the huge gaping hole is that the results at each precinct aren't "accumulated" until the machine makes contact with the home-base GEMS computer at county HQ. Via a two-way modem link that Diebold has all the pieces necessary to hack into, encryption or no encryption.

It's my understanding (from research and info re Georgia, which has Diebold statewide) that the votes are "accumulated" on one Diebold machine in each precinct and then the results are sent on to the county. Of course, what was said about the county GEMS computer is true enough -- it has to accumulate all the precinct totals.

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