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. Adam On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 11:08:38AM -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote: | Notice they did this to Chaum, too... | | Cheers, | RAH | | --- begin forwarded text | | | Status: U | To: "johnmac's living room" <johnmacsgroup@yahoogroups.com> | Cc: Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu> | From: "John F. McMullen" <observer@westnet.com> | Mailing-List: list johnmacsgroup@yahoogroups.com; contact johnmacsgroup-owner@yahoogroups.com | Delivered-To: mailing list johnmacsgroup@yahoogroups.com | Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 23:31:49 -0400 (EDT) | Subject: [johnmacsgroup] Computer Voting Expert, Dr. Rebecca Mercuri, Ousted From Elections | Conference | | Computer Voting Expert Ousted From Elections Conference | | Lynn Landes | freelance journalist | www.EcoTalk.org | | Denver CO Aug 1 - Dr. Rebecca Mercuri, a leading expert in voting machine | security, had her conference credentials revoked by the president of the | International Association of Clerks, Records, Election Officials, and | Treasurers (IACREOT), Marianne Rickenbach. The annual IACREOT Conference | and Trade Show, which showcases election systems to elections officials, | is being held at the Adam's Mark Hotel in Denver all this week. | | Mercuri believes that her credentials were revoked because of her position | in favor of voter-verified paper ballots for computerized election | systems. "I guess in a very troubling way it makes sense that an | organization like IACREOT, that supports paperless computerized voting | systems, which are secret by their very design, would not want computer | experts who disagree with that position at their meetings." | | Dr. Mercuri said that her credentials were approved for the first three | days of the conference. She attended meetings of other groups and visited | the exhibitors hall. But it was only on Thursday as she sat down to attend | her first meeting at the IACREOT that President Marianne Rickenbach took | Mercuri out of the room and told her that her credentials were being | revoked. Rickenbach said that Mercuri had not filled out the forms | correctly. Mercuri protested, but was refused reinstatement. | | David Chaum, the inventor of eCash and a member of Mercuri's | 'voter-verified paper ballot' group, had his credentials revoked on the | first day of the conference. On the second day his credentials were | partially restored. Chaum was allowed to visit the exhibitors hall, but | not attend the IACREOT meetings. | | Rickenbach was unavailable for comment as of this report. Mercuri can be | reached at the Adam's Mark Hotel through Saturday. | | --------------------------- | | | "When you come to the fork in the road, take it" - L.P. Berra | "Always make new mistakes" -- Esther Dyson | "Be precise in the use of words and expect precision from others" - | Pierre Abelard | "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" | -- Arthur C. Clarke | "Bobby Layne never lost a game. Time just ran out." -- Doak Walker | | John F. McMullen | johnmac@acm.org ICQ: 4368412 Fax: (603) 288-8440 johnmac@cyberspace.org | http://www.westnet.com/~observer | NOYFB,P | | | | | | | ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> | Buy Ink Cartridges or Refill Kits for Your HP, Epson, Canon or Lexmark | Printer at Myinks.com. Free s/h on orders $50 or more to the US & Canada. http://www.c1tracking.com/l.asp?cid=5511 | http://us.click.yahoo.com/sO0ANB/LIdGAA/ySSFAA/XgSolB/TM | ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> | | To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: | johnmacsgroup-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com | | | | Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ | | --- end forwarded text | | | -- | ----------------- | R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com> | The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> | 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA | "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, | [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to | experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo@metzdowd.com