[ale] OT: electronic voting info

[aaron]

On Thursday 25 September 2003 03:02, Christopher-Mar Gilbert wrote:
> Any one care to take bets on Diebold delivering CowboyNeal a landslide
> victory in an upcoming elections. ;)

I don't know about Cowboy Neal, but Diebold's president, Warren O'Dell, did 
promise to "do everything in his power to deliver the state of Ohio to [Liar 
Boy] Bush" in a recent Republicon fundraiser letter distributed in the 
company's home state.

And Diebold is working hard to insure we don't learn any more details about 
their broken systems or deliberate election fraud: Diebold has managed to get 
the news site http://www.blackboxvoting.org shut down via law suites claiming 
"copyright violation" for posting LINKS to publically accessable memos. So 
much for a free press and free speech in the age of DMCA, corporape media 
conglomerates and the Patricide Act (a more accurate name for the patriot 
act, since it is murders every ideal of the founding fathers).

If you want to actually have your vote count in any U.S. election, voting by 
absentee ballot has become the only slim hope. Excellent case in point are 
the many thousands of 2000 Florida absentee ballots from overseas military 
personnel that were counted regardless of their being posted long after the 
official deadline.

peace
aaron