My piece in the Examiner on the California voting decision is here.
Pass it around and like freely; if it doesn't make the Top 10 I'll spend the whole flight home from NYC silently weeping and creeping out my seatmate.
My piece in the Examiner on the California voting decision is here.
Pass it around and like freely; if it doesn't make the Top 10 I'll spend the whole flight home from NYC silently weeping and creeping out my seatmate.
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For people interested in the issue, Secretary Bowen (and various other people) were on KQED's forum this morning. An mp3 will eventually be available here: http://www.kqed.org/programs/program-landing.jsp?progID=RD19
Good article! Well written. We need reporting like that.
Armed Liberal : "Pass it around and like freely; if it doesn't make the Top 10 I'll spend the whole flight home from NYC silently weeping and creeping out my seatmate."
Don't do that. It's good work. :)
Marc:
Caught a couple of typos, but no big deal. The issue is capable of piling anger on top of despair, on top of skepticism. For all the grousing that Democrats have been doing about the voting system, they've done precious little to get things on track. Nor have Republicans bothered much. But if there's a glitch or a hack that obviously impacts an election it'll be the Republicans who catch the heat, because they're perceived as the champions and defenders of these newfangled systems. So the incentives ought to be moving them in the direction of real some real failsafe reforms.
The greater danger, of course, is that the glitch or hack will escape detection.
Thanks for a great article. Electronic voting machines have always scared the h*** out of me. As an electrical engineer, I can see how easily they can be compromised, as has been showed over and over. We need you to bring these problems to light.