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Black Box Voting
I clicked all the links, including the link called “FTP,” which took
me to a page full of files.
I called David Allen. “What am I looking at?”
Allen admitted that the file names, like “BS4” and “GA-062802”
meant nothing to him, but we both knew that this was an online file
stash. He snorted and offered a comment: “Incredible stupidity.”
I’d found the crown jewels for Diebold Election Systems. What
follows is the first detailed look — ever — into a secret voting system.
(Noun or verb?)
What do you do when you find 40,000 secret files on an unprotected file transfer site on the Internet? Probably just look and go
away. But what if you have pledged allegiance to the United States,
and to the republic for which it stands?
What if you knew that the devil went down to Georgia on November 5, 2002, and handed that state an election with six upsets,
tossing triple-amputee war veteran Max Cleland out of the U.S. Senate
in favor of a candidate who ran ads calling Cleland unpatriotic?
Suppose you knew that in Georgia, the first Republican governor
in 134 years had been elected despite trailing in every poll, and that
African American candidates fared poorly even in their own districts?
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Black Box Voting © 2004 Bev Harris • ISBN 1-890916-90-0