  I've posted on this subject before,  but never found as good an article as this one for support and research.  I work as an auditor.  As a result,  I like to see evidence to support the assertions made by a set of financials,  or the assertions made by a person playing a particular role in an organisation.
 It worries me when there isn't a paper trail to trace events.  One would think that in a setting such as a Presidential Election in the greatest democracy in the Free World,  the issues of accountability and accuracy in the voting system would be of significant importance.  Especially after Florida 2000.  You'd expect that,  right?
 Is there anything more fundamental than getting the result right?  Apparently there might be.  A whole heap of votes in this year's US Presidential elections will be counted on electronic voting machines.  Around 36 million of the votes counted on these electronic machines ( around one third of the total number of votes expected in the elcetion)  will not give a voter receipt that can be recounted if there's a conflict in the number of votes.
 This leaves the door open for either party to legally challenge the electoral outcome,  a scenario that becomes more and more obvious,  especially if the decision is a close one.  But even scarier is the potential for the vote to be fixed.  I'm going to leave out the conspiratorial parts of the article,  but the threat of a non-
traceable vote looms for both sides of the political race.  The potential for fraud and error is daunting.  About 61 million of the votes in November,  more than half the total,  will be counted in the computers of one company,  the privately held Election Systems and Software (
ES& S)  of Omaha,  Nebraska.  Altogether,  nearly 100 million votes will be counted in computers provided and programmed by ES&
S and three other private corporations:  British- owned Sequoia Voting Systems of Oakland,  California,  whose touch- screen voting equipment was rejected as insecure against fraud by New York City in the 1990s;
 the Republican- identified company Diebold Election Systems of McKinney,  Texas,  whose machines malfunctioned this year in a California election;  and Hart InterCivic of Austin urlLink The entire article is nine pages,  too much to reproduce here,
 but go read it.  We may hear more on this issue come November,  by which time it may be too late.
