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The Touch of Corruption

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May 2004
Jon Spayde Utne.com 
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It didn't happen. The state's contract with what was now ES&S didn't allow outsiders to examine the software used in the machines. Such software has been judged in court to be the private property of the voting-machine companies -- ruling out all vetting of it by governmental or party bodies suspecting fraud.

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A groundswell of alarm about the voting-machine situation has been spreading from state to state, with California going so far as the ban the use of many Diebold machines in the fall election because of security concerns. But the potential threat to the democratic process may get worse before it gets better. 'Many of the new elections contracts give the responsibility for counting the votes not to election officials but to the companies [that] built and maintain the machines,' Niman writes. 'In other words, the most sacred and tenuous process in U.S. democracy, counting the votes, has been outsourced.'

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