Saturday, May 22, 2004

Attention readers: your IP address has been demanded by the FBI....

... if you clicked on the link to Bev Harris's Black Box Voting website (www.blackboxvoting.com) in a posting on this blog earlier this year. For further details see this story at Seattle Weekly; for wildly erratic discussion, see Slashdot. Harris is the activist whose criticism of the flaws of electronic voting machines has been instrumental in leading states like California to ban machines which do not produce a voter-verifiable audit trail.

Diebold, Inc., headed by Bush fund-raiser Walden O'Dell, yesterday announced to that it intends to keep churning out the machines.

Have a nice day.

Editorial note, 5/26: corrected minor factual error.

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