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That's what we use down here in Louisiana too. Following the '96 Senate election where Landrieu stole the election due to massive voter fraud in New Orleans, the state clamped down where it needed to. Voters are now required to show proof that they are who they claim they are. Since then, the mechanical lever machines work just fine.

Electronic voting is the RATS dream come true. Instead of getting hundreds of people to go from precinct to precinct pretending they're people who are dead, or didn't vote, they can just use a few hackers in the DNC basement to change votes. And with no paper trail, nobody will ever be able to prove they stole an election.

If you read some of the articles floating around on this, the story is always that it's a tool for the GOP to steal elections. There's a website that has some decent stuff on technology that has taken it up as it's cause the past few months. Frankly, they should stick to technology.

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?page=2

That'll bring up all the articles they've done on it. To save you the time, here's a bit from one of the articles:

"The American vote-count is controlled by three major corporate players--Diebold, ES&S, and Sequoia--with a fourth, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), coming on strong. These companies--all of them hardwired into the Bushist Party power grid--have been given billions of dollars by the Bush Regime to complete a sweeping computerization of voting machines nation-wide by the 2004 election. "

So big business is gonna buy the election, blah,blah. The only thing that was disturbing to me was the fact that Diebold left the source code on an open FTP server, so someone if they desired could have uploaded their own source over the "real" code. Not the smartest company on Earth.

Voters are now required to show proof that they are who they claim they are.

When I lived in California, it always amazed me that I never had to show any form of ID in order to vote. Just show up.