This was passed on by a friend, and I've blogged on this before, but this article is long and in-depth. At least they said the California recall will have to be hand-counted (that could change). Anyway, this comes from Thom Hartmann:
AlterNet: The Theft of Your Vote Is Just a Chip Away:
"Are computerized voting machines a wide-open back door to massive voting fraud? The discussion has moved from the Internet to CNN, to UK newspapers, and the pages of The New York Times. People are cautiously beginning to connect the dots, and the picture that seems to be emerging is troubling.
'A defective computer chip in the county's optical scanner misread ballots Tuesday night and incorrectly tallied a landslide victory for Republicans,' announced the Associated Press in a story on Nov. 7, just a few days after the 2002 election. The story added, 'Democrats actually won by wide margins.' "