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Programmer Built Vote-Rigging Demo for Florida Politician
Syre writes "therawstory reports that a programmer named Clinton Curtis says in a sworn affidavit (mirror) that he developed prototype vote-rigging software at the request of then-Florida state representative Tom Feeney. The affidavit has been turned over to the House Judiciary Committee, of which Feeney is now a member. Should we call for inspection and disassembly of all the voting machine code to see if it contains any of these secret vote tampering functions he was asked to include in his prototype?" A follow-up interview is available. A point to emphasize: he's not making any claims of actual fraud occurring in the Florida elections.
I agree. This type of scare mongering is, in my opinion, very dangerous to our society. The Berkeley study got a lot of hype (not enough for most liberals), yet their study has been thoroughly DEBUNKED.
Here's a choice quote from one of the debunking statisticians: "If I were to get this article as (an academic) reviewer, I would turn it around and say they were fishing to find a result," Stewart said. "I know of no theory or no prior set of intuitions that would have led me to run the analysis they ran."
Talk about timely, the Economist magazine is this week running an article about the extreme liberal bias of American academia, and the hypocrisy of it. (think: we love diversity, so long as you are a liberal). I say ENOUGH of the rabble rousing crap. I've had enough of the academic liberal elites using their credentials to foist lies on the American people.
I agree we should always try to find flaws in any voter-related processes (electronic or otherwise). But spreading lies to undermine an election is tantamount to treason, in my book.
Thank you for providing an illustrative example of the kind of sanctimonious asshole he was talking about.
Don't label something "offtopic" unless you know the topic well enough to tell what's on topic.
National estimates for the overall prevalence of vision impairment vary, depending upon the definition utilized.
* An estimated 7.9 million persons (age 6 and older) have difficulty seeing words and letters in ordinary newspaper print, even when wearing glasses or contact lenses (McNeil, 2001).
* Approximately 8.3 million persons of all ages (3.1%) are "blind in one or both eyes or report some other trouble seeing" (Adams, Hendershot, & Marano, 1999).
How many middle aged and older adults report some form of vision problem?
* One in six Americans (17%), 45 years of age or older, representing 16.5 million middle-age and older adults, report some form of vision impairment even when wearing glasses or contact lenses (The Lighthouse Inc., 1995).. From here.
Slightly pedantic response but, you asked.
P.S. I don't have a right hand, so I guess I am a "leftie".