At the very least there should be a re-vote, and not on the same machines, but on paper ballots this time. Why anyone would object to a paper receipt of a voters choices, in this day and age when we use atm's, lottery's, etc., is beyond belief. Just having a paper trail would eliminate any attempts at fraud, and be a sure remedy for any other technical issues that might arise. This is such a no-brainer from the start that it boggles the mind why anyone would ever object to it in the first place. As I recall it had something to do with the expense. What price can you put on a fair and honest election in a democracy, I ask you?

Maybe if this gets to court the country will FINALLY see what's really been going on when we go to vote ! Hopefully the people of both parties will rise up against the machines. Voting and counting both. And H G Lite.. We have a paper trail in Ohio, they get around that too. Ohio should have turned deep blue by the votes cast for Brown and Strictland. Instead Reps still have control of congress and the courts here. Don't forget Mean Jean and Pryce are still undecided. Brad's right, (as always!) paper trails don't prevent rigging.

Clint Curtis on the Thom Hartmann Show, Now .

'With or without a paper trail.'

The government promised us 'paper trails' for these machines by 2007. I'm a programmer and I'm here to tell you that adding code to any program to create a paper trail would take about ten lines of code and an hour at most for any experienced programmer. What's this 'Wait and we'll do it in a couple of years?' Wake up, folks.

Jennings filed complaint today!

I live in Sarasota where eveything is rigged here. The Courts and Attorneys violate all the Rules and citizens rights, and run obvious sham trials. Perjury, obstruction, extortion and all laws and evidence are openenly and completely ignored here, as we remain robbed of compensation and our property like it is nothing.

Their are websites listing countless people involved, because it is endless, while the officials in florida turn a blind eye. Some is seen throughout the Tampa Bay neighboring counties, but will eventually be the same in every County, in every State as well.

Election Systems & Software Continues Heritage of Innovation (SPOOF)

OMAHA, Neb., Nov. 22 /PRNewswire/ --- Election Systems & Software, Inc. (ES&S), the world's leading provider of voting technology, sponsors a national competition to encourage new insights into voting system enhancements. The program, organized under the auspices of the University Voting Systems Competition (VOCOMP) brings together teams of the best minds in the country --- all focused on innovating new and exciting technologies.

Amanda Brown, a spokeswoman for ES&S, said today that ES&S is working with scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to provide vote counting through quantum computation, which provides a result to an election without ever running the vote counting algorithm.

By combining ES&S’s quantum computation counting algorithm and quantum interrogation, scientists at the University of Illinois have found an exotic way of determining an election result – without ever counting the votes!

Using an optical-based quantum computer, a research team led by physicist Saul Tu Kwick has presented the first demonstration of "counterfactual computation," inferring information about an answer, even though the computer did not run.

Quantum computers have the potential for solving certain types of problems much faster than classical computers. Speed and efficiency are gained because quantum bits can be placed in superpositions of one and zero, as opposed to classical bits, which are either one or zero. Moreover, the logic behind the coherent nature of quantum information processing often deviates from intuitive reasoning, leading to some surprising effects.

"It seems absolutely bizarre that counterfactual computation – using information that is counter to what must have actually happened – could find an answer without running the entire quantum vote counting computer," said Kwick, a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics at Illinois. "But the nature of quantum interrogation makes this amazing feat possible."

"In a sense, it is the possibility that the vote counting algorithm could run which prevents the vote counting algorithm from running," Kwick said. "That is at the heart of quantum interrogation schemes, and to my mind, quantum mechanics doesn't get any more mysterious than this."

Amanda Brown said test results at ES&S show that “this new technique of determining an election result without counting the votes makes substantially fewer errors than previous techniques of actually trying to count the votes.”