I'm having a hard time keeping my political addiction in check. All the machinery that I've set up to monitor news in the 29th is still humming away, dumping its poison straight into my mailbox.
I'm like an alcoholic sitting in front of a newly made martini. I might be able to keep myself from going on a bender, but I sure don't want to.
So, this weekend I moved the Fighting 29th to a new host, tweaked the layout a little bit, and prepared to get posting. I will probably post one or two entries a week, as circumstances warrant. I'll keep it pretty strictly to the 29th, though I may venture into one other pet topic: voting technology. You've been warned.
Also, if you see anything funky with the layout, your RSS feeds, or comments, please let me know.
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Welcome back!
Interesting you would also post on voting tech, since it dovetails with what one of your previous subjects, Eric Massa, has said he'll be focusing on.
FYI, Bo Lipari, of Verified Voting, will be on WXXI's 1370 Connection today at noon.
Thanks. I agree with Massa's view in that post, and I'll be posting why soon.
Whew! You had us all scared there for a while. Thank God you're not leaving.
Well, you can breathe a sigh of relief, or exhale a snort of disgust, your choice.
Glad you're back.
I agree that paper is the way to go, but optical scan readers are easy to hack, so the only value of the paper would be in a recount, which most losing candidates seem to shy away from. I would hope that a random check of a fair percentage of the machines would be required in every election.
I agree that scanned ballots are the way to go. I'm more worried about erroneous under- or over-counting with electronic voting machines, than I am about hacking, though both are a risk.