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DIEBOLD[/Premier] ADMITS TO MAJOR ACCURACY FLAWS, Aug. 2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ey2TrJvtGN8

AP & USA Today: States throw out costly electronic voting machines Aug. 19, 2008.
click here http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jej6XIWrQn6-gw5O5bJa1ELx78DgD92LK3E00

click here http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-08-19-electronic-voting_N.htm

Scientific American: Planning to E-Vote? Read This First, Aug. 18, 2008
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=electronic-election-day

CBS News: Voting Machine Doubts Linger, Aug. 16, 2008
Concerns Over Vulnerability Of Electronic Machines Sending Many States Back To Paper Ballots
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/08/16/eveningnews/main4355733.shtml

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B.Soc.Sci (Aus). Helped start an Organic Food Co-op and a Local Energy Transfer System (goods & services exchange, no cash). Lived near permaculture's Bill Mollison for a time, saw semi barren land transformed into gardens and orchards. Worked in a Community Support Center. Currently in NZ/ Aotearoa.
AuroraB.Soc.Sci (Aus). Helped start an Organic Food Co-op and a Local Energy Transfer System (goods & services exchange, no cash). Lived near permaculture's Bill Mollison for a time, saw semi barren land transformed into gardens and orchards. Worked in a Community Support Center. Currently in NZ/ Aotearoa.

good news, but

It is good that it is finally being covered, but shouldn't it be BLOCK CAPITAL HEADLINES in every main paper? Your vote no longer counts for ANYTHING! The company admitted it themselves.

So what does that tell us about those newspapers who ignore this? Have they sold out? or have they given up? Or do they honestly not give a damn?

In that moment when democracy clearly morphs into facist oligarchy, when the people's vote is no longer worth a bent cent, the news of the day turns away..

by Aurora (0 articles, 57 quicklinks, 22 diaries, 508 comments) on Sunday, August 24, 2008 at 2:23:43 PM

waldopaper is an insignificant teacher, informed reader and professional writer... living in dominionist crackerland... with two women, one young man, three cats and two dogs... alarmed at a failing state controlled by corporate psychopaths armed with nuclear weapons. There's a light on. Somebody's home.
waldopaperwaldopaper is an insignificant teacher, informed reader and professional writer... living in dominionist crackerland... with two women, one young man, three cats and two dogs... alarmed at a failing state controlled by corporate psychopaths armed with nuclear weapons. There's a light on. Somebody's home.

That's nice.

Will it make a particle of squiddly-dit difference? No.

Obama or Hitlery? Chirp and twit-twittlery. Sale on kitlery. Reduce your fat bitlery. Stuff yer ball-mitterly.

It won't mean shitlery untill their toilet won't flush.

by waldopaper (11 articles, 3 quicklinks, 27 diaries, 457 comments) on Sunday, August 24, 2008 at 6:45:24 PM

Rebecca Mercuri has been in the forefront of the voting integrity movement since 1989. She provides expert witness services for elections and other forensic computing matters.
Rebecca MercuriRebecca Mercuri has been in the forefront of the voting integrity movement since 1989. She provides expert witness services for elections and other forensic computing matters.

R. Mercuri

The risk assessment by Dan Wallach cited here is grossly inaccurate and erroneously biased toward DRE+VVPAT.

Wallach rates the confidentiality, integrity and denial of service of DRE+VVPAT the same as precinct optical scan, which is incorrect. In fact, using Wallach's rating system, DRE+VVPAT would be O(1) in all three categories, not O(P).

As well, Wallach claims that end-to-end crypto voting is invulnerable
to integrity attacks "assuming these systems are used and audited
properly." Hmmm....isn't that what ALL vendors say about their systems?

Think about it.

by Rebecca Mercuri (10 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 4 comments) on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 at 6:39:37 AM

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