[techweenie]

Gore would have won in Florida.

However, he did not, and as he graciously stated, the rules were the same as they were when he got into the race.

The electoral college performs a function -- another incredibly prescient concept of our forefathers -- and the 'game' has to be played to take that into consideration.

Most interesting since then has been the proliferation of electronic voting machines without auditing capability and with hacking vulnerabiltiy -- many produced by Republican campaign contributor Diebold. We threw them out in California. Other states may not.

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Executive Calls Vote-Machine Letter an Error
New York Times

Walden W. O'Dell, the chairman and chief executive of Diebold Inc., said on Monday that it had been a "huge mistake" for him, as the head of a voting machine company, to express support for President Bush's re-election in a fund-raising letter last year. Mr. O'Dell also said the company was working to address computer security problems and build voter confidence in its wares.

Mr. O'Dell said that he had since dropped out of all political activity and that the company would not support political parties "so long as we are in the voting business."

Reading carefully from a statement, Mr. O'Dell said, "Diebold intends to fully cooperate with the attorney general in his investigation of the secretary of state's concerns."

He said he could not discuss California, which on April 30 prohibited the use of Diebold's machines in four counties for the November election. The secretary of state, Kevin Shelley, has asked California's attorney general to investigate whether Diebold should face charges.