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Seeking The Source For Ireland's E-Voting System
WeeBull writes "Michael Cunningham from p45.net tried to request 'the source code of the electronic voting system first used in Ireland's May 2002 general election, plus any supporting technical documentation supplied to the Department of Environment and Local Government including the functional specifications' under Ireland's Freedom of Information legislation. The result wasn't what he expected ..."
So I came home from work the other day to discover my cat laying on
the floor. His breathing was very shallow and his eyes were very
glassy. When I approached him I noticed a belt tied around his arm and
both a syringe and a bent spoon laying beside him. Despite all his
promises to the contrary, my beloved Mittens has started shooting up
smack again!
Fortunately the paramedics showed up quickly and gave him some
naloxone which saved him. Unfortunately the problem of my cat being
addicted to heroin still remains. Last week he sold my stereo and this
weekend Mittens stole from my wallet to try for a
hit.
I love my cat and want to see him off this horrible drug.
Unfortunately he won't stop on his own! Mittens says he can quit
anytime he wants to and becomes combative when I force the issue. I'm
tired of seeing him throw his life away. He could've been a great
mouser, one of the best before he got hooked.
Can anyone recommend a way to get my cat off heroin? It would be much
appreciated.
I'm not Seth.
see subject
#!/usr/bin/ruby -w
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/(\w+)(\W+\w*)/ /[A-Za-z]{4,}/)
# Improves your choice of words
require 'net/http'
subrate = 50 # What % of eligible words to look up in the thesaurus?
skiplist = %w(slashdot presidium) # Words that won't be looked up ever
rx = Regexp.new("<b>Synonyms:</b> </td><td>
$stdin.readlines.to_s.split.ea ch do |word| # fix "each"
suf = ""
if word =~
word = $1
suf = $2
end
if (rand(100) <= subrate) &&
(!skiplist.include?(word.downcase)) &&
(word =~
syns = nil
page = Net::HTTP.get("thesaurus.reference.com", "/search?q=#{word}")
if rx.match(page)
syns = $1.split(", ")
end
print "#{syns ? syns[rand syns.length] : word}#{suf} "
else
print "#{word}#{suf} "
end
end
DU HAST VERSAGT! (roughly: YOU FAILED IT!)
Yesterday, I saw a bumper sticker that said "No more stolen elections!". The myth that Gore actually won is still persistent, even though Gore actually lost the same way Gerald Ford did, Carter in 1980, Dukakis, and Bush I seeking a second term: their opponent won enough states to get enough electoral votes.
The only way to "cook" the results to get Gore to win is to count as Gore votes certain Florida ballots that did not have Gore votes on them.
Bring on the electronic voting from Ireland. It will help until the future attempts at election theft conjure the electronic equivalent of the "undervote" and the dimpled chad.
"Hail to the thief" indeed: the only thief around is that guy who sometimes has a beard and says he invented the Internet. His theft attempt failed.
Given that there is a problem with such a system, how about shipping all of the votes off to a secret black box designed and built by a company in the Netherlands, which phones up a central computer and tells us who won the election?
Isn't this the same as the US Military telling us Iraq has weapons of mass destruction, using their own little pawns(i.e. *high* level UN inspectors) and their own troops they allegdly found bunkers full of chemical weapons.
Yet, where is the public investigating the truth of these claims through *independent* scientists and researchers not being funded directly by US gov't?
The media tells us through our TV that they found instruction booklets and bomb-making equipment, and there must be terrorist cells in iraq...
But again, where are the independant public investigators to authenticate such claims?
Rather, US military, the media, and associated goons in the govt keep REAL FACTS bolted down. You may think I'm putting on my tinfoil hat, but regardless of the consipiracy, there MUST be some public body(not some so-called "international" union) to check claims and facts mentioned by the above parties, only then can we really know why the US never disclosed info on the black boxes on planes crashed on 9/11 and whether there is really WMOD in Iraq.
Sigh. We live in a fucked up world. I only wish people applied the same logic of open-sourcing the voting system to everything else any govt says.