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Can America Trust Electronic Voting?

A anonymous reader writes: "The Sacramento Bee wrote an excellent article about the issues surrounding electronic voting. It was written by the Yolo County clerk/recorder and a professor of law at UC Davis. They quote sources such as Peter G. Neumann and Diebold's president Walden O'Dell."

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  1. ummm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    who the fuck cares?

    n/t

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  2. Halo 2??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    OMFG have you seen the Halo 2 trailer it's like slow and it's telling you all the stuff you did in the first one then the music kicks in andand the chief comes out and gets a gun the earf is on fire and chief is like fuck this im jumping and HE JUMPS PUT OF TEH SPACESHIP with angels singing and he lands on the bad guys and that annoying ai lady is like GO GET EM TIGER! WILDCAT IS ON TEH SPOKE!!!~`1 and theres less polys but rawkin bumb mappings you can view this on a special MICROSOFT xbox disk that comes with EB games store.

  3. Never mind the electronic stuff. by Unknown+Poltroon · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    After the Florida shennanigans, which one of us trusts the current voting systems anymore?

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  4. if nothing else by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    this article was a great post for the simple nifty javascript menu on the sunbee articles. dig that - info, font scrolling, printing, emailing, other stories by the author, and more - all from a slick little menu built into the side of the article itself. sweet. kudos to the web developers over @ sunbee for this neato mini app on their newsite. i like.

  5. I would like to point something out. by rock_climbing_guy · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    With all due respect, I would like to make an analogy. Many of you say that Bush cannot be trusted because he has been involved in the oil industry. It is as though business experience disqualifies a person from being fit for President. However, at the same time, we complain about our elected officials being oblivious to technology. I guarantee you that if Bush were an experienced techie, Barbara Boxer and Tom Dashcle would be screaming that Bush is in bed with the computer industry, and yet somehow life goes on...

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  6. Re:Can America Trust Electronic Voting? by morelife · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How do you know you're not a retard who talks out of his ass?

    Your comment above is an abhorrent and demoralizing example of what is wrong with our society. Do try and be a good citizen and stay on the voting topic.

  7. yr sig by monkeyfamily · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Why not.... "\."?

    Because that's Backslashdot

  8. Re:Redundant, I know by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Why not just not install a network card in your computer? Or not actually plug the network card into anything?

  9. Re:BBC = official government news by Troed · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm not British :) As soon as you have access to non-US news it becomes painfully clear how biased the US reporting really is.