[ale] Fwd: [ma-linux] Be Afraid; Be Very Afraid

[Charles Shapiro]

Yes, it's supposed to be statewide. I am disenfranchised in Dekalb.

-- CHS

On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 13:25, mark wrote:
> I just recieved this from my Linux Group in Northern Virginia.  The link to 
> the article details electronic voting in Fulton County, GA.  FYI!!  Can 
> anybody confirm these problems, etc?  
> 
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> Subject: [ma-linux] Be Afraid; Be Very Afraid
> Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 10:39:18 -0400
> From: alan at patriot.net
> To: ma-linux at tux.org
> 
> Dear Colleagues,
> 
> I very much hope that you all will take five minutes or so to
> read the article in the URL below, even if it is from an English
> newspaper which is, by US standards, rather to the left.
> 
> http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=452972
> 
> I am more afraid of the threat here, even if only a bit true, that I
> am of WMDs hitting the D.C. area.
> 
> I have written to Prof Mercuri, mentioned in the article, the following:
> "My vision: just as we are greeted by Dem and Repub judges as we approach
> the table in our local polling places, so should the hardware and software
> used for voting be Open Source, available to Dem and Repub hard- and
> software experts -- and to the interested public as well."
> 
> I break here a vow, made a while back, that I would no longer bug my
> friends and colleagues here with further beggings to join   linux-pe ;
> but the above URL(which states only what is already "well-known" among
> people who follow this issue) has made me change my mind.
> 
> I know of no other site dedicated to activism about getting Linux(aka
> Open Source, aka FLOSS, aka GNU/Linux -- whatever ya wanna call it<g>)
> into governments, than linux-pe.  I hope that those of you who have
> brushed my 27 or 38 or 53 previous appeals aside will reconsider.
> 
> Just go to:  http://www.tux.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pe  , and
> follow the bouncing ball<g>.
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Alan
> 
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>     When will Hans Blix get the apology he deserves?
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