Saturday, November 06, 2004

Where there is smoke, could there be fire?

I felt like I should add a slight correction to my last post in reference to the Diebold voting machines in Ohio. I mistakenly thought they were the machines that voters were using to vote on, but apparently, Ohio mainly uses punch card voting, and the Diebold machines are the central machines used to tabulate the votes that are fed into them from all over the state. Which leads to an interesting piece I found on the Daily Kos site, another political blog site with lots of useful input from not only Kos but many others who contribute to the site. There does seem, at least at this point, that there are some oddities in connection with vote calculation using these machines. I am assuming that those who are even more involved on a political level, are already looking into this, to try to figure out if fraud, or possibly some major malfunction actually took place. Even if it doesn't change the end results by enough to change the election, it is important to look into for future elections, so we have some reassurance that when we cast a vote, it actually counts, and perhaps there should be some kind of paper trail to prove that. From what I have been picking up online, it sounds like this story is going to start to become a bigger one with the main media outlets, as well it should.

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