Computer Voting Expert, Dr. Rebecca Mercuri, Ousted From Elections Conference
Steve Schear
s.schear at comcast.net
Wed Aug 6 13:49:26 PDT 2003
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
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