the people in charge of disseminating this life-or-death info will be --- Diebold! Yes, the v. same people who gave you RoboVote (their CEO was a Pioneer for BushCo. - folks, it doesn't get much more outre than this! Sure, a vote for Gore - or Kerry - or ... is magically transformed in the box into a vote for Shrub Bush, or ...)

& think legislation can open the black box & @ least try to make it tamper-proof? No, no, my friend, you're living in the blessed past - pre-Civil War, when poor court reporting magically transformed Corporates - which had theretofore been strictly limited in temporal duration & capitalization - into Presto! Change-o! "individuals" under color of law! With full rights, thank you very much.

So no! You cannot force Diebold or whoever to open up their "trade secrets." Never mind that the fate of the republic is teetering on a razor's blade edge, & the whole edifice is apt to topple into absurdity, chaos & ruin. No, never, let it all fall! The rights of Corps must be upheld, to the death of the fool government that spawned them. Sic transit gloria mundi!