I enjoyed reading "Dilbert" creator Scott Adams' observations on electronic voting.
http://tinyurl.com/v3pun An excerpt: "I think about the history of ATMs when I hear all the nervous Nellies wetting their pants over electronic voting machines. I believe those worries are totally misplaced. Now don't get me wrong there's a 100% chance that the voting machines will get hacked and all future elections will be rigged. But that doesn't mean we'll get a worse government. It probably means that the choice of the next American president will be taken out of the hands of deep-pocket, autofellating, corporate shitbags and put it into the hands of some teenager in Finland. How is that not an improvement?" http://tinyurl.com/v3pun --- Peter wrote: > > --- Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Bhairitu wrote: > > > Heads up if you have HBO as tonight they will be > > showing "Hacking > > > Democracy" their documentary on voting machine > > fraud that Diebold has > > > tried to keep them from showing. :) > > > > > > Check your local listings but it is on at 9 PM > > here. > > > > > The documentary is excellent and recommended > > watching. It repeats > > Monday evening. It is very easy to throw an > > election just by a simple > > trick to the memory cards before they are used. We > > should probably > > ditch electronic voting until society is mature > > enough to use it. > > I saw it last night. It's very disturbing. There's > executable code in the memory card. Diebold claims > there's not, but it's in all the cards that they've > checked. This means you can change the total vote > ratio prior to voting but the total will always be the > same. The mind boggling thing is that you'd think > Diebold would be falling all over itself correcting > this with the utmost transparency. But they're not. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
