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Verified Voting
Joe from the EFF writes "Verified Voting has just gone
live with a number of tools
for all you data-hungry election nerds out there. Amongst the goods:
an election
guide for geeks, a voter's
guide to
electronic voting, the Verifier database
of
county-by-county election information and the Election Incident
Reporting System (EIRS) which will be used on E-day by
attorneys and observers in the field to collect data about election
incidents called into the Election Protection
Coalition's
hotline, 1-866-OUR-VOTE. The geek community is playing a particularly
active role in this year's eleciton via VV's TechWatch
program. However, we could still use the help of the slashdot
community, and all you have to do is click: We need to test the
resiliency of the Verifier database
and the EIRS
before the election.
That a site dedicated to watching over e-voting is itself not up to the task.
Of course any operation that uses a toy database like MySQL or Access deserves what it gets
Signed,
A ducking and running PostgreSQL addict
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"You are not remembered for doing what is expected of you." - Atul Chitnis
There is plenty of blame to go around for the explosives fiasco already, although it would be nice to have some more detailed facts. It certainly demonstrates incompetence on either the administration or the military's part. I mean if you are told that there are thousands of pounds of explosives in a location, after you invade shouldn't you at least check to see if they are still there?
Perhaps you'll find that one reason yet.