Aparently an Australian university's developed open source software tohandle e-voting: http://www.wired.com/news/ebiz/0,1272,61045,00.html http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20031103/0858231.shtml and this grim news: http://gnosis.python-hosting.com/voting-project/August.2004/0018.html
With any luck, the growth of Linux and the open source software market might put the e-voting situation right for next time. Wesley Parish On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 05:52, (ALPHA) wrote: > > Vote Hacked - The list of evidence is growing that the US election was > > anything but a fair vote. Who could possibly think that all of these > > voting problems are just a minor aberation? The long lines are always in > > Democratic counties, that the computer �glitches� always favor Bush, and > > the new e-machines were made by a Bush �Pioneer� (top donor) that pledged > > to deliver for Bush. Funny how Diebold makes bank machines which print > > paper receipts millions of times daily, but they couldn�t get the printer > > to work in the voting machines. > > > > * Closed Source Code Vote Fraud > > > > http://www.pnews.org/PhpWiki/index.php/ClosedCodeVoteFraud > > The problem is there is NO audit and therefore no way to confirm anything > in spite of any backdoor manipulation or direct manipulation considering > it is closed source. No one knows if George Bush stole the election and > there is no way to know without the audit and there should be an > examination of the code. Elections should never be privatized. NEVER! It > is a secret ballot, not a secret how the machine does it's job. The > potential for vote fraud is so great that mere appearance of impropriety > makes the election process too suspect to be valid and on those grounds > alone it should be verified or nullified. The article asks how many > provisional votes are there? How many absentee ballots? How many > inconsistencies does it take before the vote becomes null and void? > There is a comments box at the article. > > Hank > > > > > > > > > ----- > / o o \ > ===OO=====OO============================================= > (4)Portals (2)News Wikis (2)Conferences - No BuSHIT! > Start here: http://pnews.org/ (On Internet since 1982) > http://pnews.org/PhpWiki/ (West Coast News Wiki) > http://g0lem.net/PhpWiki/ (East Coast News Wiki) > ========================================================= > FIGHT THE RIGHT! > ================== > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > -- Wesley Parish * * * Clinersterton beademung - in all of love. RIP James Blish * * * Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people." ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/XgSolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ----- / o o \ ===OO=====OO============================================= (4)Portals (2)News Wikis (2)Conferences - No BuSHIT! Start here: http://pnews.org/ (On Internet since 1982) http://pnews.org/PhpWiki/ (West Coast News Wiki) http://g0lem.net/PhpWiki/ (East Coast News Wiki) ========================================================= FIGHT THE RIGHT! ================== Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rhetoric-list/ <*> 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/
