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Several groups are investigating how electronic voting machines [5] performed during the U.S. elections [6]. Three Democratic Representatives asked the General Accountability Office for "an investigation into irregularities with voting machines," including a memory card reader in Ohio that gave Bush "3,893 more votes than he should have received"; North Carolina e-voting machines that lost 4,500 votes; and Florida machines from ES&S [7] that counted absentee ballots improperly. Although the Information Technology Association of America [8]'s president said, [9] "The machines performed beautifully," computer scientist Avi Rubin commented [10], "We'll never really know if [this election] was actually successful."
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[5] http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Voting_machine
[6] http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=U.S._presidential_election%2C_2004
[7] http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Election_Systems_%26_Software%2C_Inc._(ES%26S)
[8] http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Information_Technology_Association_of_America
[9] http://www.boston.com/news/politics/president/articles/2004/11/04/computer_scientists_cautious_of_e_voting/
[10] http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/story/0,10801,97197p3,00.html
[11] http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,65623,00.html