...in case you are not that concerned about the Republicans stealing the election:
Diebold, a major contributor to the Republican party, has designed the
electronic voting machines. Bev Harris, a journalist who stumbled onto
some Diebold programs called "RobGeorgia" and exposed Diebold for
actually PROGRAMMING the machines to steal votes. They are not just
vulnerable, they are designed to steal votes. The link below is to Bev
Harris' site with some really disturbing info about the voting machines. Incidently, the most recent news is that Diebold is now advocating getting rid of the sign-in books at polling places altogether and making them electronic. Thus removing the last physical evidence to compare machine results to...
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bev-harris.htm
~Mieke
Editor's Note: California Secretary of State Kevin Shelley decertified Diebold's AccuVote-TSx voting system due to "the disenfranchisement of voters attempting to use the AccuVote-TSx voting system at the March 2, 2004 Presidential Primary election" in California.
Posted by cbsisco at June 2, 2004 07:43 PMThat's good that California's not using it anymore, and that we have a Secretary of State that's willing to do something to make sure elections are fair. Wonder if any other states have done the same thing...
Posted by: Kristina at June 4, 2004 08:01 AMI used to think that scare-mongers with an ax to grind against electronic voting were just Luddites.
But now I vote early in paper for every election.
Posted by: cody at June 8, 2004 07:05 PMTo code the impossible code, This is my quest --
To bring up a virgin machine, To debug that code,
To pop out of endless recursion, No matter how hopeless,
To grok what appears on the screen, No matter the load,
To write those routines
To right the unrightable bug, Without question or pause,
To endlessly twiddle and thrash, To be willing to hack FORTRAN IV
To mount the unmountable magtape, For a heavenly cause.
To stop the unstoppable crash! And I know if I'll only be true
To this glorious quest,
And the queue will be better for this, That my code will run CUSPy and calm,
That one man, scorned and When it's put to the test.
destined to lose,
Still strove with his last allocation
To scrap the unscrappable kludge!
-- To "The Impossible Dream", from Man of La Mancha
Mother told me to be good but she's been wrong before.
To code the impossible code, This is my quest --
To bring up a virgin machine, To debug that code,
To pop out of endless recursion, No matter how hopeless,
To grok what appears on the screen, No matter the load,
To write those routines
To right the unrightable bug, Without question or pause,
To endlessly twiddle and thrash, To be willing to hack FORTRAN IV
To mount the unmountable magtape, For a heavenly cause.
To stop the unstoppable crash! And I know if I'll only be true
To this glorious quest,
And the queue will be better for this, That my code will run CUSPy and calm,
That one man, scorned and When it's put to the test.
destined to lose,
Still strove with his last allocation
To scrap the unscrappable kludge!
-- To "The Impossible Dream", from Man of La Mancha