X'posted to Dailykos

Not all of us who advocate for verified voting are doomsayers who do no actual work.

Some of us have been doing work at the grassroots level before 98% of the people in the blogosphere even knew or cared what these machines were. I'll use myself as an example, years ago when Diebold was still considered "hunky dory" in California, I led a letter writing campaign to then Democratic Secretary of State Kevin Shelley. This letter writing campaign consisted of a clear and reasoned argument against the security of these touch screen machines. They run off of MS Access, are ridiculously easy to hack and have proven flaws that are always patched and never fixed. Speaking as somebody working within the IT field I came up with a reasonable set of "talking points" and distributed them to friends and colleagues who were also concerened.

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