Now we learn that the keys that open Diebold voting machines are widely available on the Internet. These people are fools. The nutty thing is this: Diebold also makes ATMs. Are their ATMs constructed with such shoddy security? Probably not. What does this mean?
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Of course they are. The point blank refusal to provide any sort of paper receipt should prove that. Maryland uses those machines - Maryland also just started allowing anyone to vote absentee - paper! - whether they're abroad or not.