On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 21:15:14 -0500, "Family Man" <nospam@nospam.com>
wrote:
tell the WHOLE story, then let us judge. Don't tell 1/4 of the story and
then act like you have all the answers.
The data files are sent to a central location in each state.
Researching that part now....
Each state conducts its own tests on the software and machines before
they are used in the election. Among other things they set all the
clocks to Election day and run mock elections, checking the vote
totals to make sure these match against what was actually cast. The
machines & software have no way of knowing if they're "live or
Memorex" during the testing. With hundreds of software engineers and
programmers checking the accuracy of the machines nationwide, who in
his right mind would try to load a virus?
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Some factoids:
2000 2004 % Increase
Bush 50,456,169 59,459,765 17.8%
Democrat 50,996,116 55,949,407 9.7%
Population 281,421,906 294,719,604 4.7%
Much of the Democrat gain is explained by simple
population growth. Bush's gain isn't.
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