Diebold has confessed that it’s voting machines loose votes.
According to spokesman Chris Riggall, a “critical programming error that can cause votes to be dropped while being electronically transferred from memory cards to a central tallying point” has been part of the software for ten years.
Paper ballots people.
There has to be an audit trail.
You’d think people would be a lot more concerned about this. in the ’04 races, I found my votes for some local libbytarians didn’t show up in the final tally from my precinct — funny, that.