----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason Coombs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gregory Gilliss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 7:04 PM Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] University Researchers Challenge Bush Win In Florida > > If, through testing of electronic voting machines, statistical anomalies can be detected that favor the candidate that is entered into the database third (or whatever, take your pick, and it would be different for different voting machines and maybe in different regions, say, because Florida is full of elderly) then you can 'rig' an election in your favor simply by having a non-random selection for the order in which the candidates get listed, and a failure to properly distribute that randomness across precincts. > I'm no mathematician, but I suspect the probability of this is somewhere slightly south of null. Do you have any concept of how elections are run? In *many* states each *county* determines the ballot type and layout, the voting machines used, etc., etc. Merely to calculate the odds and determine the proper order of the ballot would be an astronomical task, and *then* you'd have to convince the election board in each county, *including* those controlled by the opposing party, to design the ballot the way *you* wanted it designed.
> If anything, that is what I believe is most likely to have happened in 2004. Bush elected through the (fair ?) exploitation of statistical anomalies tied to misbehaving or ill-conceived electronic voting equipment. Teamed with the fact that partisan, interested voters are in charge of the process this is very plausible... > And to think that people call him "stupid", "the chimp", "Bushie the bozo", etc., etc. Who knew. Jason, you really need to think before posting. You're beginning to look silly. Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu/~pauls/ _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html