[OT] some info you need to know

[Alan Dayley]

Speaking as a gadget loving geek: Using computers to collect votes is a
completely unnecessary application of technology to a process that doesn't
need it, IMO.

But, given that we have them, a HUGE step to preventing current problems,
preventing questions of foreign government influence and preventing
outside involvement, would be to have completely open hardware and
software for the voting systems.  It's such a simple answer and yet is
dismissed out of hand in most circles.

So frustrating!

Alan

A huge step in solving all these issues
On Mon, October 30, 2006 3:00 pm, Randy Melder wrote:
> http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/15869919.htm
>
> On 10/30/06, Mike Schwartz <mike.l.schwartz at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 10/28/06, Technomage <technomage-hawke at cox.net> wrote:
>> >
>> > I had this on rss feeds last night and thought it would be a good idea
>> > to pass
>> > it on:
>> >
>> > "How to Steal an Election"
>> > http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/evoting.ars
>> >
>> > I highly recommend reading this along with the followups at:
>> >
>> > 1. http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=202852&cid=16595762
>> > 2. http://arstechnica.com/etc/How_to_steal_an_election-ArsTechnica.pdf
>> >
>> > These are very informative and Open source is mentioned, but only as a
>> > possible alternative....
>>
>> Just FYI (and to name-drop for a minute),
>> in [the pdf version of] "How to Steal an Election"
>> (see URL labeled "1." above)
>> the first entry there listed under
>> "Bibliography and further reading", (under "Sites") is
>>    << "Doug Jones, Voting and Elections" >>
>> where the green underlined part is a link to
>>    http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/%7Ejones/voting/
>> My 0.02:
>>    This summer when I was in Iowa,
>> I met Doug Jones (several times), and talked to
>> him at length, (but mostly about other topics).
>> --
>> Mike Schwartz
>> Glendale  AZ
>> schwartz at acm.org
>> Mike.L.Schwartz at gmail.com
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