Voting machine tampering found in 2004 election logs ?

"The internal logs of at least 40 Sequoia touch-screen voting machines reveal that votes were time and date-stamped as cast two weeks before the election, sometimes in the middle of the night."

"Black Box Voting successfully sued former Palm Beach County (FL) Supervisor of Elections Theresa LePore to get the audit records for the 2004 presidential election."

Oh, well, with all the machines used across the country, there's bound to be a few glitches somewhere. There must be more to it......

"The evidence indicates that someone accessed the computers after the L&A (Logic & Accuracy tests) and before the election, and that this access caused a change in the machine's reporting functions, at least for date and time. Such access would take a high degree of inside access. It is not known whether any other changes were introduced into the voting machines at this time. As learned in the Hursti experiments, it is possible for an insider to access the machines and leave no trace, but sometimes a hasty or clumsy access (such as forgetting to enter a correct date/time value when altering a record) will leave telltale tracks."

You know, this is just one of the counties that used voting machines. As close as that race was in most states (in spite of the lies claiming Bush won by a "landslide"), it's real handy to have a voting system that can be so easily corrupted. Was this tampering, or just clumsy maintenance? Who knows, who can tell for sure? Well that's the crux of the voting machine debate, isn't it. If you can't accurately and reliably depend on the system used for exercising democratic decisions, then what's the point? If those that control the machines can make whatever changes they want, and do so to influence the outcome of elections, as all the voting machines are capable of doing, then real voting in American has officially ended, and only the pretense remains.