In a related development, today a Federal Appeals Court judge in Florida ordered that a case challenging electronic voting must go to trial. The case involves the 15 Florida counties in which no paper trail was planned. Without a paper trail, recounts are impossible, charged Rep. Robert Wexler, the lead plaintiff in the case.
Black Box Voting's Bev Harris reports this comment from a news service reporter who may not be quite as intelligent as the chimp:
"This isn't realistic. You'd notice if a chimpanzee was in the elections office."
Diebold has previously claimed its voting machines' audit logs could not be changed "by human intervention," something that unnamed reporter might still believe.
Meanwhile, in a Washington Post op-ed piece today, former U.S. President and veteran election observer Jimmy Carter said Florida may be in for a repeat of its 2000 voting problems:
International election observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and Global Express are already in the U.S. to monitor our elections.