"TALLAHASSEE =B7 The head of Florida's elections division resigned =
Monday=20
amid reports he was feeling political heat over a push to purge=20
thousands of suspected felons from the state's voter rolls."
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/loc...ion08jun08,0,=
24
24064.story?coll=3Dsfla-news-florida
or
http://tinyurl.com/2m568

It's much worse than that.
Today's New York Times:
"If election officials want to convince voters that electronic voting =
can be
trusted, they should be willing to make it at least as secure as slot =
machines.


There are more stories about the software, how easy it is to change
results, resistance to using a paper receipt, very odd vote counts
where computerized voting is used, etc..

http://www.cpa.org.au/garchve04/1171usavotes.html
Beware computers that count votes

O'Dell who is the chairman of the board of Diebold Election=20
Systems, the second largest company in the US that counts votes=20
is quoted as saying that he is "committed to helping Ohio deliver=20
its electoral votes to [George W Bush] in 2004".

On occasion, O'Dell hangs out at the Bush ranch in Crawford,=20
Texas. He hosted a US$600,000 fundraiser for the Bush-Cheney=20
campaign in Ohio in which Cheney was the featured speaker.

Questions began to swirl about Diebold's vote-counting machines=20
soon after they began securing lucrative contracts under Bush's=20
"Help America Vote Act", which provides US$3.9 billion to the=20
states to help finance a total shift to electronic voting by=20
2006.

Three corporations own the hardware and software used to count=20
about 80 percent of the votes cast electronically in the US.

A striking fact about the boards of these companies is the=20
presence of former CIA directors, including James Woolsey, Bobby=20
Ray Inman, John Deutch, and Gates and Carlucci. When has the CIA=20
been pro-democracy? Why this keen interest in voting technology?



Walt