Well, this is comforting. Computer hackers employed by Secretary of State Debra Bowen were able to break into just about every type of voting machine used in the state and take control of their systems -- even altering vote counts in some cases, according to a story in the San Francisco Chronicle.
The Chron's John Wildermuth wrote: "The researchers 'were able to bypass physical and software security in every machine they tested,' said Secretary of State Debra Bowen, who authorized the 'top to bottom review' of every voting system certified by the state.
"Neither Bowen nor the investigators were willing to say exactly how vulnerable California elections are to computer hackers, especially because the team of computer experts from the UC system had top-of-the-line security information plus more time and better access to the voting machines than would-be vote thieves likely would have."
Well, that's some comfort, I guess. Paper trails, anyone?
on "truthout.org" today, reporting from ohio, it seems that the out going sec.of state, destroyed, or otherwise disapeared, the ballots from the highly contested 2004 race, in clear violation of election law and a court order specificly prohibiting it...these folks dont believe in democracy, it's their worst fear...will we be reading about this in the bee?...their's alot of us out here who "grok', Russ..