Anybody?
A lot of talk this morning about voting machine security. Somebody made the point that nobody has ever hacked into a voting system in a manner that others might detect. (No, this is NOT a tautology) I wasnt sure I understood, but it seemed that there was something analogus to a che
I found this overview to be very informative, rather alarming, and
only as technical as minimally needed.
On arstechnica website:
http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/evoting.ars
Also available as a free, PDF: (PDF Link)
http://arstechnica.com/etc/How_to_steal_an_election-ArsTechnica.pdf
Al
As someone who doesn't have a vote here, I'm appalled by how little those who do have a vote care about it being stolen. See http://www.harpers.org/ExcerptNoneDare.html
for a discussion of the media's lack of coverage of the Ohio thefts.ROn 11/6/06, James Steiner <
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Today's NYT had an OpEd by Bob Herbert on voting problems and issues.
Perhaps those concerned progressives involved in IT, computers,
complexity and software should investigate electronic voting and its
inherent weaknesses that allow both unintentional and intentional errors.
Perhaps the U
Perhaps the leading national figure on the security of voting machines is Michael Shamos, a PhD computer scientist and attorney who is on the faculty at Carnegie Mellon. See his testimony
http://www.house.gov/science/hearings/ets04/jun24/shamos.pdf and his vita http://euro.ecom.cmu.edu/people/facu
The Freakonomics guys said at one time that we need to be clear about
the natural errors within any system, and when the vote is closer
than that error value, decide on what to do about a "tie" rather than
fretting about chads, hackers, broken machines and so on.
Basically voting like any ot
Well, Jimmy Carter does a lot of election monitoring and said last
week that the US wouldn't meet the world standard because candidates
don't have equal access to the media...
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> Today's NYT had an OpEd by Bob Herbert on voting problems and
issues.
> Perhaps those concerned progressives
I have a nice Sony 5-CD carousel playback deck (Model Sony CDP-C435) to give away. I've just supplanted it with a 300-CD jukebox, so I don't need it anymore. It has a headphone jack and output level control (in addition to the usual outputs to an amplifier), and I've had it connected directly to so
The cd player has been claimed, and remarkably quickly at that.
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Hi Bruce
I've set up a home office in the cassista and I'd be deighted to offer a
good home t your CD player. If I;m the first to answer - consider it a done
deal. Just have to know how to pick it up - and it would be an occasion to
catch with you.
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At 12:19 PM 11/6/2006,
The NY Times op-ed piece by Conley that Paul references above also makes the point that counting is a statistical process. Unfortunately this is a red herring - yes it's an effect but it is swamped by the other systemic abuses. Here's a paragraph from a Rolling Stone piece (
http://www.rollingston
Latest issue of JASSS has just appeared: http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/JASSS.htmlIt includes a Netlogo simulation of a malfunctioning road traffic junction in India. Not - unfortunately - the one that we saw the video of earlier this year.
Robert
I was impressed that when I voted on Friday (Colorado has early voting), that the touch screen was attached to a printer that printed out each of my responses. This was not present when voting in 2004; sure... its still possible to mess with the system, but the print out provides a bit more confid
On 11/6/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Today's NYT had an OpEd by Bob Herbert on voting problems and issues.
> Perhaps those concerned progressives involved in IT, computers, complexity
> and software should investigate electronic voting and its inherent
> weaknesses that allow
Won't the electronic voting at least provide a hope for analysis,
especially of "irregularities"?
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Robert Holmes wrote:
> These are not statistical anomalies
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Provided our officials and organizations are involved, you can be sure
whatever happens is a necessary result of sound leadership and
sociality. Now please return to your regularly scheduled CSI Miami
followed by the local TV news.
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