E olha que ele é irmão do George W. Bush!

Chadel

A respeito de [VotoEletronico] Re: Flórida abandona urnas eletrônica do tipo 
brasileiro,
em 02/02/2007, 10:44, Paulo Mora de Freitas escreveu:

PMdF> Pessoal, em particular vejam o que diz o atual governador da Florida 
PMdF> (republicano) :

PMdF> “You should, when you go vote, be able to have a record of it, that’s 
PMdF> all we’re proposing today. It’s not very complicated; it is in fact 
PMdF> common sense. Most importantly, it is the right thing to do.”

PMdF> Mais óbvio do que isso, impossível. Porque essa nossa imprensa marrom 
PMdF> não reproduz essa notícia e essa frase, essa nossa imprensa marrom tão
PMdF> habituada a noticiar tudo o que sai nos jornais americanos? Essa nossa
PMdF> imprensa certamente é um WC com filtro...

PMdF> Paulo.

PMdF> Amilcar Brunazo Filho a écrit :
>> Olá,
>>
>> A confusão na apuração dos votos na Flórida em 2000, foi o estopim 
>> para a lei federal americana "Ajude a America votar" que estimulou a 
>> compra de máquinas de votar eletrônicas pelos Estados.
>>
>> Atualmente 35 estados americanos adotam máquinas de votar que emitem o 
>> voto impresso conferido pelo eleitor para viabilizar recontagens.
>>
>> Apenas 15 estados americanos ainda adotavam máquinas de votar que não 
>> usam a materialização do voto digital, do mesmo tipo das urnas-e 
>> brasileiras, entre eles a Flórida.
>>
>> Mas o governador da Flórida acaba de anunciar que vai abandonar todas 
>> as urnas-e sem voto impresso (similares às urnas-e brasileiras) e 
>> migrar para máquinas de votar com leitura óptica do voto (do tipo das 
>> nossas máquinas de loteria esportiva).
>>
>> O motivo alegado é que ficou comprovado que máquinas de voto puramente 
>> digital, como as brasileiras, sempre poderão ser fraudadas em larga 
>> escala e a comprovação da fraude pode ser muito difícil.
>>
>> Aqui no Brasil o TSE continua impedindo que sejam feitos testes de 
>> penetração para verificar a sua alegada invulnerabilidade. Veja em:
>> http://www.votoseguro.org/textos/penetracao1.htm
>>
>> A notícia sobre a Flórida foi publicada no New York Timee e seu texto 
>> está abaixo.
>>
>> [ ]s
>> Eng. Amilcar Brunazo Filho - Santos, SP
>>
>> ===
>> http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/02/us/02voting.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
>>
>> February 2, 2007
>>
>>
>> *Florida Shifting to Voting System With Paper Trail *
>>
>> By ABBY GOODNOUGH
>> <http://query.nytimes.com/search/query?ppds=bylL&v1=ABBY%20GOODNOUGH&fdq=19960101&td=sysdate&sort=newest&ac=ABBY%20GOODNOUGH&inline=nyt-per>
>>  
>>
>> and CHRISTOPHER DREW
>> <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/d/christopher_drew/index.html?inline=nyt-per>
>>  
>>
>>
>> DELRAY BEACH, Fla., Feb. 1 ­ Gov. Charlie Crist announced plans on
>> Thursday to abandon the touch-screen voting machines that many of
>> Florida
>> <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/national/usstatesterritoriesandpossessions/florida/index.html?inline=nyt-geo>?s
>>  
>>
>> counties installed after the disputed 2000 presidential election. The
>> state will instead adopt a system of casting paper ballots counted by
>> scanning machines in time for the 2008 presidential election.
>>
>> Voting experts said Florida?s move, coupled with new federal voting
>> legislation expected to pass this year, could be the death knell for the
>> paperless electronic touch-screen machines. If as expected the Florida
>> Legislature approves the $32.5 million cost of the change, it would be
>> the nation?s biggest repudiation yet of touch-screen voting, which was
>> widely embraced after the 2000 recount as a state-of-the-art means of
>> restoring confidence that every vote would count.
>>
>> Several counties around the country, including Cuyahoga in Ohio and
>> Sarasota in Florida, are moving toward exchanging touch-screen machines
>> for ones that provide a paper trail. But Florida could become the first
>> state that invested heavily in the recent rush to touch screens to
>> reject them so sweepingly.
>>
>> ?Florida is like a synonym for election problems; it?s the Bermuda
>> Triangle of elections,? said Warren Stewart, policy director of
>> VoteTrust USA, a nonprofit group that says optical scanners are more
>> reliable than touch screens. ?For Florida to be clearly contemplating
>> moving away from touch screens to the greatest extent possible is
>> truly significant.?
>>
>> Other states that rushed to buy the touch-screen machines are also
>> abandoning them. Earlier this week, the Virginia Senate passed a bill
>> that would phase out the machines as they wore out, and replace them
>> with optical scanners. The Maryland legislature also seems determined to
>> order a switch from the paperless touch screens, though it is not clear
>> yet if it will require the use of optical scanners or just allow paper
>> printers to be added to the touch screens.
>>
>> On Monday, Representative Rush D. Holt, Democrat of New Jersey, plans to
>> introduce a bill in Congress that would require all voting machines
>> nationwide to produce paper records through which voters can verify that
>> their ballots were recorded correctly. A majority of House members have
>> endorsed the proposal, and the changes have strong support among Senate
>> Democrats. Mr. Holt?s bill would also substantially toughen the
>> requirements for the touch-screen machines that have printers, and
>> experts say this could give even more impetus to the shift toward the
>> optical scanning systems.
>>
>> Mr. Crist, a Republican
>> <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/r/republican_party/index.html?inline=nyt-org>,
>>  
>>
>> at times drew whoops and applause when he announced his plan at the
>> South County Civic Center in Palm Beach County, the epicenter of the
>> 2000 election standoff and home of the infamous ?butterfly ballot? that
>> confused many voters. The touch screens had replaced the punch-card
>> systems that caused widespread problems that year.
>>
>> ?You should, when you go vote, be able to have a record of it,? Mr.
>> Crist told a few hundred mostly older citizens at the civic center, in
>> Delray Beach, where many residents said they accidentally voted for
>> Patrick J. Buchanan
>> <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/patrick_j_buchanan/index.html?inline=nyt-per>
>>  
>>
>> in 2000 instead of Al Gore
>> <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/g/al_gore/index.html?inline=nyt-per>
>>  
>>
>> because of the confusing ballot design. ?That?s all we?re proposing
>> today. It?s not very complicated; it is in fact common sense. Most
>> importantly, it is the right thing to do.?
>>
>> Mr. Crist?s renunciation of touch-screen voting one month after he
>> replaced Jeb Bush
>> <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/jeb_bush/index.html?inline=nyt-per>
>>  
>>
>> as governor of the nation?s fourth-most-populous state, suggested that
>> the fight for paper voting records, long a pet project of Democrats,
>> might become more bipartisan. Mr. Crist made the announcement with
>> Representative Robert Wexler, a Democrat from Delray Beach who has
>> ardently led the movement for a paper trail and has attacked Republicans
>> along the way.
>>
>> ?I support this plan 100 percent,? Mr. Wexler said before introducing
>> Mr. Crist. ?This governor means what he says, and he?s coming to
>> Tallahassee and he?s spreading the message throughout Florida that
>> this isn?t about Republican or Democrat, it?s not about this ideology or
>> that; it?s about unifying people and doing what?s right for the people
>> of Florida.?
>>
>> The 15 Florida counties that have adopted touch-screen voting in recent
>> years, including Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach and Hillsborough, would
>> move to optical-scan voting under the proposal before the presidential
>> election of 2008. The plan would give them the option, however, of using
>> touch-screen machines during the state?s two-week early voting period
>> that precedes Election Day, if the machines are modified to provide a
>> paper trail. Those counties represent 54 percent of the state?s
>> registered voters. Broward County alone has bought about 6,000
>> touch-screen machines in recent years, and Palm Beach County has about
>> 4,500.
>>
>> Mr. Crist said county election supervisors would explore how to make
>> optical-scan voting easier for blind people and for those who speak
>> foreign languages. In some cases, they have been able to vote without
>> assistance on the touch-screen machines.
>>
>> Asked how he felt about discarding tens of millions of dollars worth of
>> touch-screen machines just years after they were acquired, Mr. Crist
>> said, ?The price of freedom is not cheap. The importance of a democratic
>> system of voting that we can trust, that we can have confidence in, is
>> incredibly important.?
>>
>> Election experts estimate that paperless electronic machines were used
>> by about 30 percent of voters nationwide in 2006. But their reliability
>> has increasingly come under scrutiny, as has the difficulty of doing
>> recounts without a paper trail. Federal technology experts concluded
>> late last year that paperless touch-screen machines could not be secured
>> from tampering.
>>
>> Some states had bought early versions of the paperless machines before
>> the 2000 recount, and one of them, New Mexico, switched last year to
>> optical scanners. But most of the machines in other states were
>> purchased with federal money provided under a 2002 law that required
>> states to upgrade from old punch-card and lever systems.
>>
>> New York is planning to buy either screens with printers or optical
>> scanners, New Jersey is adding paper trails to its touch screens and
>> Connecticut is buying the optical scanners. A recent survey by Election
>> Data Services, a Washington consulting firm, estimated that 36 percent
>> of the nation?s counties have bought electronic machines, including some
>> with printers attached, while 56 percent have the optical scan systems.
>>
>> Mr. Holt said his bill would require the return to paper ballots by
>> next year?s presidential primaries, and it would authorize $300 million
>> in federal money to upgrade the machines. Some state and county election
>> officials say it could be difficult to make such sweeping changes by 
>> then.
>>
>> But, Mr. Holt said, ?it depends on how badly we want to do it. The
>> public is getting very impatient here.?
>>
>> In Sarasota County last November, more than 18,000 voters who used
>> touch-screen machines did not have their votes recorded in the close
>> Congressional race between Vern Buchanan, the Republican, and Christine
>> Jennings, the Democrat. Mr. Buchanan took office last month after a
>> recount gave him a 369-vote victory, but Ms. Jennings has sued.
>>
>> Former Governor Bush, President Bush?s younger brother, generally
>> defended touch-screen voting during his tenure and said skeptics had
>> fallen prey to ?conspiracy theories.? But leading up to the 2004
>> presidential election, the Republican Party of Florida sent out fliers
>> urging voters to use absentee ballots because of the absence of a paper
>> trail.
>>
>> Experts say the optical scanners are less expensive than the
>> touch-screen systems. But Kimball W. Brace, the president of Election
>> Data Services, said optical scanning systems had had a slightly higher
>> rate of voter error than touch screens.
>>
>> Abby Goodnough reported from Delray Beach, Fla., and Christopher Drew
>> from New York.
>> __._,_.___
>>
>>
>>
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Roger Chadel

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