The latest issue of "Hightower's Low Down" talks about the various private companies (and their conflicts of interest) that have been supplying the touch screen voting machines, along with some of the hanky panky that has already taken place.
Besides the outright scandals there are the suspicious results: For example, three Republican candidates in three separate elections counted by machines supplied by the same company with tight Republican connections win by the exact same margin of votes, some improbable number like 10,800. When authorities requested permission to audit the voting records, the company explained that they didn't have room to save them so they had erased them. Do you trust these guys? So far there are no laws that require these companies to reveal the internal workings of their machines. It looks like Bush won't need a boost from the supreme court this time around. Forest ---- Election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
