Diebold Issues Cease and Desist to Indymedia. from the boards, harriet nyborg:
Any technology introduced to improve the act of voting cannot make the act of counting less transparent or democracy suffers.
It is apparent that Diebold’s systems (not to mention Diebold’s paranoia for secrecy) render the act of counting less accountable and less transparent. Ergo, democracy suffers.
If used in a close election – where exit polling and other secondary measurements are unable to confirm the results of the counting – the wrong person might actually get elected President of the United States of America.
With no sense of responsibility to the coutry at large, this illegitimate President might launch a series of Napoleonic wars to to compensate for his own feelings of inadequacy.
I digress into fantasy… the little blue ones I washed down with all those adult beverages must be kicking in.