[Tfug] technical help needed with the election?

[Matthew T. Eskes]

As Jim would tell you, there most certainly are electronic voting machines
in Tucson. That's kind of what started my diatribe on Huckelberry. Jim,
AFAIK, is part of an independent watchdog committee (correct me if I'm
wrong) that oversees elections here in Pima county and again AFAIK all
around the state. They couldn't audit the last round because Pima county was
supposedly in violation and needed to certify the count. And again, as far
as I know, Diebold still has the contract for the voting machines here so
that means, proprietary code == no lookie. Anyway, Im sure he's going to be
emailing the list with more information; hopefully I get it first so that he
can correct my errs.

Cheers.

Matt 

-- The Founding Fathers struggled for the principle that man could and
should be trusted with his own destiny. Our current /domestic/ enemies,
against whom those Americans in uniform are sworn to defend, do not believe
in this principle, but we have again won a round in the endless fight
against them.
    
   -- Jeff Cooper on the assault weapons ban ending 
-----Original Message-----
From: tfug-bounces at tfug.org [mailto:tfug-bounces at tfug.org] On Behalf Of
Steve Franks
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 9:52 AM
To: Tucson Free Unix Group
Subject: [Tfug] technical help needed with the election?

Since we seem to be no-holds-barred on the topics, I was driving to
work this morning, thinking about my friend the committed libertarian
who actually volunteers in counting chads and the like on election
day.  I'm not trying to be paranoid, nor do I believe there is any
conspiracy, but it occurred to me that unless people like us are doing
it, there's really no way people like him can say whether an
electronic voting machine is honest or not.  Of course, if we did
uncover a conspiracy, we'd be famous ;)  So, anyone know if there are
electronic voting machines in Tucson, and if any independent committee
is prepared to download the kernels or whatever code runs on them on
election day and audit it?  I've no love of pouring over assembly
language by hand without documentation, but I'd do it for my
country...

I suppose I should get current on the state of the technology before I
form any grand plans, but it was an interesting thought experiment.

Steve

_______________________________________________
Tucson Free Unix Group - tfug at tfug.org
Subscription Options:
http://www.tfug.org/mailman/listinfo/tfug_tfug.org