Wednesday, October 22, 2003
Steal this election: Civil Disobedience
This blog's thread entitled "Steal this election" is about new voting machines that are so poorly implemented that many experts are concerned that they'll result in untrustable elections.
Some people are so concerned about incompetent (best case) or rigged (worst case) voting machines that they're defying a Diebold "cease and desist" letter sent under the DCMA demanding that ISPs shut down Web sites that make a corpus of "copyrighted" Diebold internal memos about these voting machines available to the public.
The memos are juicy reading. One, for example, says that Diebold machines in Precinct 216 in the contested Florida election recorded -16,022 votes for Al Gore -- this "count" reflects the zeal with which votes can be taken away from a candidate!
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is defending them. And there's more detail at the Indymedia site.
Diebold voting machines help "count" the vote in 37 states.
I think the citizens of the United States should petition the U.N. for independent poll watchers from neutral nations for the 2004 election. Maybe it'll be fair, but these machines cast a dark shadow of doubt.
Here's a Salon article with lots more details.
Thanks to Joho the Blog for the pointer.
Some people are so concerned about incompetent (best case) or rigged (worst case) voting machines that they're defying a Diebold "cease and desist" letter sent under the DCMA demanding that ISPs shut down Web sites that make a corpus of "copyrighted" Diebold internal memos about these voting machines available to the public.
The memos are juicy reading. One, for example, says that Diebold machines in Precinct 216 in the contested Florida election recorded -16,022 votes for Al Gore -- this "count" reflects the zeal with which votes can be taken away from a candidate!
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is defending them. And there's more detail at the Indymedia site.
Diebold voting machines help "count" the vote in 37 states.
I think the citizens of the United States should petition the U.N. for independent poll watchers from neutral nations for the 2004 election. Maybe it'll be fair, but these machines cast a dark shadow of doubt.
Here's a Salon article with lots more details.
Thanks to Joho the Blog for the pointer.
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