[E-voting] FW: [IP] more on (wiith comments by djf) NYTimes.com Article: Why We Fear the Digital Ballot

[adam beecher]

[And a couple of follow-ups. I tend to agree with Dave on a lot of things,
but he's lost me /completely/ here. --adam]
 

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> From: owner-ip at v2.listbox.com 
> [mailto:owner-ip at v2.listbox.com] On Behalf Of David Farber
> Sent: 28 September 2004 00:21
> To: ip at v2.listbox.com
> Subject: [IP] more on (wiith comments by djf) NYTimes.com 
> Article: Why We Fear the Digital Ballot
> 
> While I see benefits to do all we can to assure accurate 
> tallies, I think it is a lot more important to assure that 
> voters are allowed to register and get to the polls. That is 
> not the case in many parts of our country. Also  endlessly 
> telling the public that it is a waste of time to believe that 
> their votes will be accurately counted does not inspire 
> people to go to the polls.
> 
> At this date lets devote our energy to getting out the voters.
> 
> Dave
> 
> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> From: "Robert J. Berger" <rberger at ibd.com>
> Date: September 27, 2004 7:10:08 PM EDT
> To: Dave Farber <dave at farber.net>
> Subject: Re: [IP] (wiith comments by djf) NYTimes.com 
> Article: Why We Fear the Digital Ballot
> 
> I agree with you 100%, but what your comment and the article 
> miss, is that at least the Diabold voting machines and the 
> associated GEMS management software are just plain bad. They 
> have known  back doors, the data can be manipulated with 
> plain Windows computers with MS Access software, have no 
> public review of the code (other than the code that was found 
> on their FTP site which got some very bad reviews) and they 
> have a CEO who is blatantly pro Republican.
> 
> The first step, that needs to be done BEFORE Nov 2nd is 
> public review of the software and paper printouts suitable 
> for manual reconciliation on all electronic voting machines. 
> Anything less will mean that there can be no trust in the 
> vote done by these devices.
> 
> Then we can do as you suggest and get it right (or at least 
> orders of magnitude closer to "right").
> 
> Rob
> 
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