<div dir="ltr">I don't trust voting machines at all, even if they have libre software inside. It's way more secure against rigged elections to get people to manually count the votes. Every person knows how to make sure that a manually counted election is not stolen, but one must be an expert in order to make sure an electronic voting election is not rigged.<br>
<br>I also think that, based on the information avaible, Bush stole the 2004 election through voting machines.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 6:16 AM, Richard M. Stallman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rms@gnu.org">rms@gnu.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">If voting machines use software, it should be free software.<br>
But just having free software in voting machines does not make<br>
it possible to trust them. We need to be concerned that the<br>
manufacturers, or the election authorities, will fiddle with them<br>
to steal the election.<br>
<br>
It appears that Bush stole the 2004 election in Ohio that way.<br>
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