It's not just anti-war sites receiving house calls from the FBI. At least one software engineer has also, one with a connection to the electronic voting machine issue. A software engineer named Jonathan Inskeep of CASE Consulting writes on a Yahoo electronic voting message board:

Jonathan Inskeep here, from Crofton, Maryland which is approximately in
the middle of the triangle formed by Washington, DC, Baltimore, and
Annapolis. I'm a software engineer. My personal view is that every line of computer code used in any capacity to count votes should be made public. Any company that intends to claim their software as proprietary or a trade secret should be prohibited from bidding on contracts. Once the system is complete,
it should be put up and hackers worldwide should be invited to break it. As each flaw is exposed, it should be corrected and the process begun again.

The toughest issue I see, other than the fact that the Republicans have been and currently are actively cheating, is privacy versus verification. How can an individual make sure his or her vote is counted while maintaining a "secret" ballot? I would like to see some sort of paper trail.

He goes on about problems with the machines in his precinct, then says,

This system is about to be replaced by our Republican governor with
some sort of paperless touch screen system based on untested software
that has no audit trail.

Also, two FBI agents came by my house last week asking for names of radicals and organizations. My email is being monitored. Anyone on
this board should assume the same.

Is this an anomoly or does this mean that if you dig too far into the problems with electronic voting systems you might get a visit from the FBI?

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