On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 01:49:26PM -0700, Steve Schear wrote: | 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. Huh? Voters don't control the security of the voting system any more than we control the security of the credit rating/id theft system. And similarly, your choice to not play doesn't protect you. Tim's idea of using the voting system's security to accelerate the de-legitimization of the system is a fine one, although it has the risk that the statists will get awfully violent as we try to ignore them out of existance. I don't see how an absentee ballot is going to make anything any better. Adam -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume