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Gore Vidal Savages Electronic Voting
gribbly writes "aging author and social critic Gore Vidal savaged electronic voting in an interview with the LA Weekly. The interview deals mainly with (what's wrong with) the Bush Administration, but halfway down he says: 'We don't want an election without a paper trail...all three owners of the companies who make these machines are donors to the Bush administration. Is this not corruption?'."
But at least the press leaves a paper trail.
You were 80% angel, 10% demon. The rest was hard to explain. - Over The Rhine
"Math in a song is good."-Linford
On the idea of rebelling against a clearly problematic system, is there a way for voters to 'inadvertantly' do something along the lines of, say, mistaking an evote machine for an unhammered nail, metaphorically speaking...
The only corruption here is the horrible corruption of the English language that somehow lead to CmdrTaco thinking "to savage" meant "to ravage."
Jeremy
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led away to his Guantanamo relocation center, he was quoted as saying ...oh, wait. The Official Information Minister has informed me that reporting Vidal's final statement would make me an enemy combatant, and would mean that the terrorists had won. And that would be doubleplusungood.
Why do I care what a popular salon owner says about this issue?
The surprise isn't how often we make bad choices; the surprise is how seldom they defeat us.
Marge: So, did you call any of your friends?0
Lisa: Friend? [scoffs] These are my only friends.
[holds up a book]
Grownup nerds like Gore Vidal, and even he's kissed more boys
than I ever will.
Marge: Girls, Lisa. Boys kiss girls.
sig--we don't need no goddamn sig
it's not al gore we're talking about ... it's gore vidal, some wierd person
If we're talking about paper voting, don't paper mill companies give big bucks to the Republican party?
The USA PATRIOT Act is as despotic as anything Hitler came up with -- even using much of the same language.
:o)
Really? The PATRIOT act was written in German?
Yeah, it is criticism that is ruining this country. Afterall this country was built upon consent and not dissent... I mean those damn pesky commies daring to say somethign bad about our beloved Fuhrer!
Bastards! I right there with you brother, btw may I say you look smashingly good in you brown shirt today.
Also why don't most normal American's a have a problem with Bush yet?
Because if Al Gore had been president any of the following may have happened:
1) We would have surrendered before the second plane hit the WTC.
2) Only criminals would have guns.
3) Even more money would be taken from my pocket to support inner city kids who don't understand "Gang Banging" isn't a productive life style.
4) We would be paying $5.00 for a gallon of gas, to put in a sub-standard 1000 pound car that would be destroyed when it collided with a june bug.
Ya know, there's more, but I'm getting angry just thinking about it.
Excessive forking causes un-wanted children.
How hard would it be to hack up a cash register to work as a voting machine, complete with e-reporting to the vote counting center and printing of a hardcopy receipt in duplicate, one for the backup ballot box and one for the customer?
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You could revel in your contribution to democracy with the sound of the cha-ching!
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"Every time a bell rings, a founding father gets his wings."
Like the onion once said:
"Our 8 year nightmare of peace and prosperity is finally over" -GWBush
"It requires electronic machines to produce a receipt which is deposited in a lock box.... "
Lock box.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Damn, I blew my last mod point earlier today, otherwise you'd get a funny. That's one of the most hilarous spoofs of the right's view of the left I've seen in ages. You forgot to include the line about requiring everybody to participate in homosexual marrages.
I read the internet for the articles.
Are you saying that to migrate to a new system that we should run the new system in parallel with the old system and cross check for performance and reliability?
You crazy bastard!!
Yeah, right now I can go through my AM dial and hear all those "liberal" media outlets.
I agree! This "liberal bias" stuff is hokum.
Or pick up all those "liberal" newspapers,
The NYT, the W. Post, the LA Times, the Phila. Inquirer, the Baltimore Sun, the Miami Herald -- all of 'em are fucking John Birchers! I'm sick of their conservative crap. They should shut up and give someone else a voice!
or listen to the "liberal" clearchannel owned stations,
You already talked about radio. You did leave out that bastion of conservatism which is NPR.
and of course FOX news is as "liberal" as it gets....
I'm so sick of TV - all the conservatives make me sick -- it's just one after another: Bill Moyers, Dan Rather, Peter Jennings, Tom Brokaw, the CNN crowd, 60 Minutes, 20/20, Barbwa Walters, the morning hosts like Katie Couric, Bryant Gumbel...fire breathing conservatives, all of 'em! Where's the balance?!?
Don't even get me started on Hollywood -- They're all sucking Reagan's cock still: Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins, Ed Harris, Babs Streisand, Spielberg, Janeane Garafolo, Paul Newman, Martin Sheen, blah, blah, blah. Remember when Elia Kazan was up for a lifetime achievement award at the Oscars a few years ago -- heck, nearly ten people in the audience stood up to applaud, and I bet that nearly all of them were Republicans who cheered when he ratted on the communists in Hollywood in the fifties.
Fucking conservatives -- they run everything. We'll get our chance someday, though. Until then, blow up your TV!
GF.
Lots of petrified grits
Bravo Rush! Give it to them!
I didn't know they let you surf from the rehab.
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Maybe I'm new here, but I'm really failing to see the problem...
Idiocy: The swift, wholly uneducated dismissal of that which is above one.
I take it that you failed your course in logic?
How can we continue to believe in a just universe and freedom to eat crackers if we have no ale?
Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia.