Jim Carson

mitch wrote on (September 18, 2003 12:09 PM)

Dude, don't even get me started on voting machines. With a whole election currently delayed in California since "minorities don't know how to work punchcards" - a condensending insult by the ACLU to minorities and not fitting with facts in California voting patterns* - the whole "which method of voting is best" is getting a LOT of airplay down here.

* A lot of stuff going on down here. The study used by the ACLU was financed by a company trying to get sell their electronic voting machines to counties with punch cards, and the actual data doesn't show what the ACLU said it showed - I don't have the energy to go into it, but there is plenty of this on-line. My advice is to just ignore it and see how this plays out in the courts. I am betting at this point the verdict is overturned and the election will go on its orignial date.

carson wrote on (September 24, 2003 10:28 AM)

As an interesting followup, blackboxvoting.org is offline (see the title page). The follow-on releases have been most curious.

The original research paper is here: http://avirubin.com/vote.pdf

Diebold's web site, http://www.diebold.com, has some interesting news articles:

1. http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home03/aug03/votehere.html
Statement of Avi Rubin regarding relationship with VoteHere, Inc, a competitor of Diebold.

2. http://www.corporate-ir.net/ireye/ir_site.zhtml?ticker=DBD&script=410&layout=-6&item_id=442090

Diebold responds to Johns Hopkins Professor's Disclosure of Relationship With Voting Industry Competitor

3. http://www.diebold.com/whatsnews/inthenews/executive.htm

Diebold Executive to Keep Lower Profile (essentially one of their executives has a relationship with the Bush reelection campaign)