[ale] OT: electronic voting info

[Tom & JaVonn]

Chris:

I attended the Election Center slide show and Q & A today at Kennesaw.  Both disappointing and frightening.

Instead of the "non holds barred Q & A" that I was expecting, we got a video and slide show by someone who just came onboard in June.  He teaches Java programming at KSU, but kept pleading ignorant of the details of testing at the Federal and State level.  Also attending was Ms Rogers from the Dekalb County meeting a couple weeks ago.  She stated IN FRONT OF 20 ATTENDEES what she had said privately at the Dekalb meeting, that "you all have your opinion and I have mine, and mine's never going to change".  Is this a suitable attitude for a high ranking employee of the Sec of State office???

Anyone else make it to the meeting?

Tom
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On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 13:32:53 -0400
"Kilroy, Chris" <Chris.Kilroy at turner.com> wrote:

> the fact that the CEO of this company also is heavily involved in political fundraising for a specific candidate is very disturbing as well to me.
> 
> that's a pretty substantial conflict of interest.
> 
> ->-----Original Message-----
> ->From: tfreeman at intel.digichem.net [mailto:tfreeman at intel.digichem.net]
> ->Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 1:30 PM
> ->To: bob at verysecurelinux.com; Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> ->Subject: Re: [ale] OT: electronic voting info
> ->
> ->
> ->
> ->I finally looked at the article linked below. The public is 
> ->being swindled 
> ->(IMHO) with promises of technology being a cure all for 
> ->social challenges. 
> ->What is being implemented isn't any better, and may well be 
> ->significantly 
> ->worse than practices past.
> ->
> ->How many people are going to notice the spin Dibold put on 
> ->things with 
> ->their statement to the effect that the whole country's voting 
> ->will be more 
> ->secure by making modifications to Maryland's equipment? 
> ->
> ->May I be completely discouraged for the rest of the 
> ->afternoon, or am I 
> ->supposed to be positive and find the opportunity hiding in 
> ->here somewhere?
> ->
> ->On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Transam wrote:
> ->
> ->> The Johns Hopkins report (with Johns Hopkins University 
> ->being in Maryland),
> ->> and the outrage it rightly generated caused Maryland's 
> ->Governor to order
> ->> an independent audit of the Diebold voting system:
> ->> 
> ->>      http://Security.ITtoolbox.com/news/dispnews.asp?i=101718&t=99
> ->> 
> ->> The audit found 328 security weaknesses, 26 of them critical.
> ->> 
> ->> The fixes will be applied only to the Maryland systems.
> ->> 
> ->> Bob Toxen
> ->> bob at verysecurelinux.com               [Please use for email to me]
> ->> http://www.verysecurelinux.com        [Network&Linux/Unix 
> ->security consulting]
> ->> http://www.realworldlinuxsecurity.com [My book:"Real World 
> ->Linux Security 2/e"]
> ->> Quality Linux & UNIX security and SysAdmin & software 
> ->consulting since 1990.
> ->> 
> ->> "Microsoft: Unsafe at any clock speed!"
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