Diebold machines are crap but they don't make 80% of the voting machines as you claim.

I have seen this in many other places, but it addresses the list of problems with your conspiracy fantasy:

1. In order to insert a malicious code, you'd to have physical, unsupervised access to the machine. Based on that scenario, no online merchant, no bank, credit card company, or government agency would be secure.
2. Every election is based on a completely different set of code and variables (often quite more complex tban a simple 2 candidate race). How would you obtain, in advance, a complete copy of this code?
3. Each election district is running a completely different variation of the election code based on that districts specific precinct information. Any code written would have to take into account every possible combination and be able to accurately modify it so that is did not return errors in the election database.
4. These machines, to the best of my knowledge, are never connected to a network or the Internet at any time. How would a virus be able to propogate to all the machines when it would require a disk to be physically inserted in each machine?
5. Most importantly, every election counted since about 1975 has been tallied by a computer. Why is it now such a major infatuation with the public when for the last 30 years no one has even noticed?

If you're going to try to build an argument, it helps to start with one that's defensible. Doubtless you think everyone should just accept "articles" (of faith, of course) from blogs and publications like "Common Dreams - News and Views for the Progressive Community." Unfortunately, most of the posters here would because it fits their ideology.
Anyway, I find it ironic that the very same people who found it too difficult to read a paper ballot and punch a hole in it are the same ones who not only demanded electronic voting machines...but are also the same ones complaining about getting them.

By the way, will someone explain to me how, if liberal Diebold conspiracy fantasies are true, Republicans are smart enough to pull off "stolen" elections year after year despite entire newspaper and magazine spreads and tv "exposes" on "rigged machines" in the NYT, Time Magazine, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, CNN, ABC, CBS, MSNBC, Fox News, NBC, et al... and Dems are not smart enough to catch them? Speaks volumes...but about whom?

Lest you think it's all a Rovian conspiracy to nullify Democrats' thousands of hard-earned votes from the dead and the illegals, I'd point out that Republican candidates have had to challenge some recent voting machine results, too. Turning on the partisan part of your brain turns the logical part off. Don't do it. Keep thinking.
The current party may not be in power in a few months. Who will be in control of the machines then?