You may have read this morning's diary on this subject by Bev Harris. Predictably, it became a debate about Bev Harris. That's too bad, because a truly scary (even by the standards of 2006 America) situation has developed in Leon County, Florida, a situation that could chill efforts all over the counry to expose the grave problems with our corporate-run election system.
Readers of this site may well be familiar with the Florida test-hacks of Diebold op-scan equipment , conducted in Leon County, FL under the authority of the County Supervisor of Elections, Ion Sancho. The hacks made national news, and California's expert voting panel, taking a close look at part of the source code, concluded that not only was that hack test for real, the system was even more vulnerable than thought, and that conclusion was based on their analysis of only a portion of the software code.
Now Sancho is facing a wave of hardball retaliation and may lose his job.
More on the flip.
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