[ale] Can't happen here. [OT]

[Jim Kinney]

and the govs are required to keep even MORE reams of paper tracking
every tick mark and what type of pencil used, etc...

So, yes, WHY IS THIS ONE THING exempt from the same level of scrutiny?

Because someone benefits from it.


On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 3:17 PM, mike at trausch.us <mike at trausch.us> wrote:
> On 11/06/2012 03:07 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>>
>> I can't speak to the validity of ANY of this. But I really do want
>> touch screen machines to generate a paper, human-readable ballot by
>> default. Doesn't matter which set of monkeys is pulling strings if
>> most fundamental part of what we are told is important is stolen when
>> we use it. Elections should be open source with NO exceptions. We know
>> how to do this.
>
>
> Yes.  It would be very nice to have the thing give you a receipt of your
> vote, so that you can see that the machine actually did record things
> accurately.
>
> It's interesting, really, when you think about it.  If you work with the
> government, you're required to keep so many assloads of audit records, log
> files, paper trails, etc., etc., etc. around so that you can prove that
> you're not trying to stick a big dildo up Uncle Sam's ass, but Uncle Sam
> doesn't have to do the same to us.
>
> "By the people, for the people."  Wouldn't that mean that we should have the
> right to audit the government?  Wouldn't that mean that we should be able to
> see the code that goes into its systems?  Wouldn't that mean that we
> should... *insert thing we can't do here*?
>
> Why can't we hold the government accountable?
>
> Hell, why can't we, the people, make law in Georgia?
>
> That is one thing I seriously miss about Ohio.  I liked the fact that should
> I want to, at any given moment, I could write a proposed law myself, collect
> enough signatures to get it to appear on a ballot, and then it would go up
> for a vote.  The General Assembly doesn't have anything to do with it.
>
> That process isn't frequently used, but when the people of Ohio are angry
> about something that the General Assembly has (or has not) done, it *IS*
> used.
>
>         --- Mike
>
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