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Originally Posted by gettin out
 Went to the Savanna Center @8 am. Had to wait over 1 1/2 hrs to vote. Only one machine there. Also isn't this the 21st century, do we really have to have paper ballots. |
"CLEVELAND – The FOX 8 I-Team has learned that Cuyahoga County recently sold thousands of its touch-screen voting machines
for less than a penny on the dollar.
And, believe it or not, that’s the good news: thousands of other machines had their parts recycled or scrapped.
The county paid a company nearly $6,000 just to dispose of those machines.
The saga of how parts of a $21 million purchase could wind up being sold for pennies, or simply scrapped....
I-Team: Millions Lost in Voting System Sale | FOX8.com
"..At polling stations, teams working on the study were able to pick locks to access memory cards and use hand-held devices to plug false vote counts into machines. At boards of election, they were able to introduce malignant software into servers.
Ms. Brunner proposed replacing all of the state’s voting machines, including the touch-screen ones used in more than 50 of Ohio’s 88 counties..."
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/15/us/15ohio.html?_r=0