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A. Joseph Ross lawyer@attorneyross.com
Thu Nov 11 18:57:44 EST 2004


On 11 Nov 2004 at 6:39, Sid Schweiger wrote:

> Only problem is, as multiple news organizations have reported, and as CBS'
> 60 Minutes adequately demonstrated, many of the newer computer-based
> voting machines do not produce a paper trail or any other sort of
> independently verifiable count.  A recount, in those cases, would be
> simply asking the machine to regurgitate the exact same numbers it spit
> out the first time.  I can't speak for anyone else, but to me that's not a
> recount.

Quite so.  Which is why those machines ought not to have been used without paper backup. 
Computers don't make mistakes?  We all know better.

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