At 11:54 2003-08-06 -0400, Adam Shostack wrote:
Well, if you can't win on the truth, win on the procedures.
At least Dr. Mercuri is in fine company there, ranging all the way back to Socrates and Galileo. Little consolation, I know, as our democracy gets replaced by a kleptocracy, but what can you do?
Maybe she should set up stealdemocracy.com, a new voting machine company. Sell machines that explicitly let you steal elections. Get some press.
A better solution, already available to voters, is to request an absentee voter form. If a substantial number of voters asked to vote this way it would overwhelm the voting machinery and completely negate any cost savings expected from the distrusted automated systems. steve "The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, and intolerable." --H. L. Mencken