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As "voters took to the streets in 19 states ... to protest paperless electronic voting [5] machines" at "The Computer Ate My Vote" rallies, the high-tech industry lobby group Information Technology Association of America [6] fought back. ITAA head Harris Miller suggested that [7] "critics who claim to be concerned about the issue are really pushing a political agenda on behalf of the open-source software community." Furthermore, asking open-source proponents about electronic voting "is like asking a bunch of clergymen what they think of premarital sex," said Miller. An ITAA-funded poll [8] found that 77 percent of registered voters aren't concerned about the security of e-voting systems.
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[1] http://dev.prwatch.org/users/6/diane-farsetta
[2] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/public-relations/crisis-management
[3] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/democracy
[4] http://www.addtoany.com/share_save?linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Fdev.prwatch.org%2Fspin%2F2004%2F07%2F2789%2Fe-vote-and-prayer&linkname=An%20E-Vote%20and%20a%20Prayer
[5] http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Voting_machine
[6] http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Information_Technology_Association_Of_America
[7] http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/story/0,10801,94584,00.html
[8] http://www.itaa.org/news/pr/PressRelease.cfm?ReleaseID=1083692029
[9] http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1624654,00.asp