Evoting in the News

key45 writes "Just a few days after California rejects Diebold E-Voting machines, and Ireland bans e-voting too, the Information Technology Association of America (which represents election equipment makers and other technology companies) released a poll showing that the majority of Americans trust those machines. The war for public opinion is on!" Reader theRG writes "The U.S. Election Assistance Commission held hearings on May 5 about the pros and cons of electronic voting machines. They debated whether or not machines should have paper trails, and what standards should be set. Meanwhile, NPR reports on California's recent decertification of Diebold machines and on one Ohio county's switch from punchcards to electronic voting." And finally, our own OSDN has a report from the election commission meeting: Joe Barr writes "Thom Wysong has a report at NewsForge this morning on the first public meeting of the new U.S. Election Assistance Commission. Questions like whether or not a voter verifiable audit trail and open source should be mandated for e-voting solutions were the order of the day."

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penz

[Anonymous Coward]

penzam first post ++

Or worse

[Anonymous Coward]

Some of those dolts voted for Buchanan.

Re:American opinion is no measure of truth

[cheezedawg]

What a dumb question.

Baath party officials smuggled weapons from Afghanistan and delivered them to Ansar al-Islam groups on northern Iraq

Kurdish military seized TNT from Ansar al-Islam that was produced by the Iraqi military

Abu Wa'il was an Ansar al-Islam operative, and he was also an employee of Saddam

Abu Musab az-Zarqawi is an Ansar al-Islam leader, and he received medical treatment from Saddam in Baghdad

After the US invaded Iraq, 8 foreign Ansar al-Islam operatives were taken into custody after a gunfight in northern Iraq. All 8 had valid Iraqi visas, meaning the Iraqi government approved of their presense.

(source, source)

Is that 100% proof that Saddam supported al Qaeda? Of course not, but you are still missing the point. Even if Iraq has nothing to do with al Qaeda, they have supported many other terrorist organisations (like Mujahedeen-e-Khalq, the PKK, the Abu Nidal Organization, and Hamas). We are in a war against terrorism, not only al Qaeda.