<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>On Jul 15, 2005, at 9:52 AM, Stephen Turner wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Mostly, but not only about Diebold.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>I wonder how</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">these companies stay in business.</FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>HAVA, the Help Americans Vote Act, ensures that there will be nice shiny new voting machines in every precinct in the US by November 2006. That's a few billion dollars in subsidy to the voting machine industry. And in their spare time they make ATMs and video poker and slot machines.</DIV></BODY></HTML>