Earlier this year, I wrote a piece on the incredible inaccuracies of electronic election systems and the more incredible insistence of local bureaucrats that these flawed systems regardless of test results or certification process.

http://www.t3.org/tangledwebs/09/tw0901.html

Things got even stranger after that. On April 13, Florida Secretary of State Glenda Hood issued an administrative rule prohibiting any manual recount of electronic voting results. Naturally, just about every civil liberties and voter awareness organization in Florida was outraged.

Rightly or wrongly, accusations remain about the accuracy of the Florida vote tally in the 2000 presidential elections, and Governor Jeb Bush and Republican legislative leaders are not allaying any suspicions by banning recounts outright.

Yesterday a Florida State judge ruled that the order itself violates state law. Which mandates recounts on very close races.

Further reading…
http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,64760,00.html/wn_ascii

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