-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.politechbot.com/p-01484.html Click Here: <A HREF="http://www.politechbot.com/p-01484.html"> politechbot.com: Internet voting in Florida; s�</A> ----- Internet voting in Florida; state uses Microsoft SQL; more ------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 13:30:08 -0500 * To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Subject: FC: Internet voting in Florida; state uses Microsoft SQL; more * From: Declan McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ******** >From: Adam Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: but will online voting elect Bush? >Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 09:36:02 -0500 >X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) > >Declan, > >It's reported that the 5,000 Florida votes that have not been counted at all >are overseas absentee -- mostly military. That can only be good news for >Bush, given how heavily the military went for the GOP. But now the Internet >angle... > >There's an interesting Internet voting angle here: There is a little-known >federal experiment in Internet voting taking place this week involving >troops overseas who vote in -- yes -- Florida. According to Polli Brunelli >from FVAP, the agency administering the test [http://www.fvap.ncr.gov/], >speaking at our eVoting workshop here last month [see >http://www.netvoting.org/], the number of troops would be very small -- no >more than a few thousand -- who otherwise might not have been able to get >their ballots back to Florida by the deadline. But, but, but... Could this >be the first year the Internet decides a presidential contest???? > >Cheers >Adam *********** >Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 05:09:37 -0500 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: Rich Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: FC: Al Gore is only 630 votes away from winning the > election > >as you may know, this has narrowed to 224 votes according to voter news >service. by the way, this is what you get when you try to reach >the election results site below: > >Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80004005' >[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][Named Pipes]Specified SQL server not >found. >/SummaryRpt.inc, line 51 > >so look who is providing the db software used to tally the votes >in the state that will determine the presidential election! > >-r *********** >Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 09:06:45 -0800 (PST) >From: "Bradley K. Sherman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Waitress! Civics Lessons all 'round > > >It's Wed Nov 8 09:01:59 PST 2000. Do you know where your >Elector is? > > >From <URL:http://www.nara.gov/fedreg/elctcoll/faq.html> > > Are electors required to vote for the candidate who won > his or her State's popular vote? > > There is no Constitutional provision or Federal law that > requires electors to vote according to the results of the > popular vote in their States. Some States (24 plus DC at > last count) require electors to cast their votes according > to the popular vote. These pledges fall into two categories > -- electors bound by State law and those bound by pledges to > political parties. > > The Supreme Court has held that the Constitution does not > require that electors be completely free to act as they > choose and therefore, political parties may extract pledges > from electors to vote for the parties' nominees. Some State > laws provide that so-called "faithless electors" may be subject > to fines or may be disqualified for casting an invalid vote and > be replaced by a substitute elector. The Supreme Court has not > specifically ruled on the question of whether pledges and > penalties for failure to vote as pledged may be enforced under > the Constitution. No elector has ever been prosecuted for > failing to vote as pledged. > > Today, it is rare for electors to disregard the popular vote > by casting their electoral vote for someone other than their > party's candidate. Electors generally hold a leadership > position in their party or were chosen to recognize years of > loyal service to the party. Throughout our history as a nation, > more than 99 percent of electors have voted as pledged. > > >How wonderful it was to see the pundits squirm! Worth every >second of ambiguity. Also, how about a little credit to >Buchanan for demolishing the Reform party? A Republican >apparachnik to the end. > > --bks *********** >From: "Kevin Harper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Image of Palm Beach ballot >Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 09:38:30 -0800 > >Some are saying that the Palm Beach ballot is confusing. > >I don't think it is, and being a Republican, I believe W. is our >legitimate President Elect. > >In the interest of public discourse, however, here is a GIF image of the >ballot in question. > >I've made it available at www.worldfilm.com/tvr/palmballot.gif . > >Thanks, I appreciate your list. > >Kevin Harper >webmaster, worldfilm.com ********* ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- the moderated mailing list of politics and technology You may redistribute this message freely if it remains intact. 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