[ale] OT: VoterGA eVoting suit -- oral args on appeal before the GA Supreme Court

[Jim Kinney]

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Mike Harrison<meuon at geeklabs.com> wrote:
>> using systems that are entirely incapable of producing the
>> essential, untainted, voter verified, physical ballot
>> evidence by which the citizens can publicly secure, audit
>> and validate their election results.
>
> That's a good summary, and makes the point clear.
>
> While crude and slow, almost any citizen can manually count and verify
> physical ballot evidence. It doesn't require "experts" with black box
> obfuscation equipment that can manipulate the results intentionally or
> accidentily.
>
> I'm mostly worried about incompetence mixed with ill intentions,
> a bad combination..  (Wow, Bob got 5 million to 1 votes for dog-catcher..
> they sure must like Bob.. Hmm, there's only 700 people in this town..)

That's voting in Chicago old-school style (the dead rise from the grave...)

New version: Bob got 357 votes and Fred got 351. Every time we run the
program we get the same numbers so it must be right!
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