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Senators Clinton and Kerry Submit Open Voting Bill
An anonymous reader writes "DailyKos is reporting that a group of senators and representatives including Hillary Clinton, John Kerrry, and Tubbs Jones, have proposed an 'open-source' voting bill. This bill (The Count Every Vote Act of 2005) corrects many of the problems in the last election. Notably, it requires paper receipts, and that the source and object code of all electronic voting machines to be open and readable by the public. " Commentary on the bill available at the Miami Herald.
Will wonders never cease?
Something I agree with Kerry & Clinton on?
I don't read AC A human right
for the love of god, please please please let this happen. just this once let a good bill pass.
-dave
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... We are pleased to present John Kerrry!!!
Don't blame me -- I voted for Roslin.
...but then, on slashdot we're probably all just hopeless libertarians anyway ;)
They can have my unregulated monopoly when they pry it from my cold dead hands!
"it requires paper receipts, and that the source and object code of all electronic voting machines to be open and readable by the public."
Since hackers want to break into the system, giving them the source makes their job a lot easier. No one else has any real incentive to atually analyse the code necessary, so this would be a win for the hackers (quit using the term cracker, BTW. It's annoying the way people try to change the definition of terms)
Man, the type-
setting of that
bill is aw-
ful. Do all
bills have stu-
pid margin
sizes?
"Is that a zero or a one, I think they meant to vote THIS way"
They should have called it
.....
"The No Vote Left Behind Act"
That'd satisfy the need the Administration has to name things using code words, like
"Help America Vote" - help citizens vote Right
"Can Spam" - yes, legally, now you can
"No Vote Left Behind" - leave the "No" votes behind, tally the "Yes" votes
.. is, then, a corporate lobby which pushes for the end of all corporate lobbying.
...)
that'll screw 'em!
(oh, btw, it should be a publically traded corporation
; -- the corruption of government starts with its secrets. a truly free people keep no secrets. --
If only that were the case ... try hopeless socialists.
I, for one, am extraordinarily disappointed with the lack of quality of trolls in this modern day and age. I remember when a decent troll would satisfy my cravings for ignorance. But recently, the quantity of good trolls has been steadily decreasing.
Is someone dumping raw sewage over the side of your bridge? Come one people, you have to _make an effort_
Defenestrate Windows...
I'll donate $1000 to the cause if both John Kerry and Hillary Clinton can explain what source code and object code are.
we are winning
You just keep telling yourself that.
Number two is a misrepresentation of the facts. Please explain to me how Bush will stop Islamic fascists from killing and destroying. It's what they do. The only way to make them stop trying is to kill them all. The left won't allow that. We do need help getting the Iraqi government's security forces, which is why Bush just had a conference with European leaders. Been watching the news lately?
Number three -- who cares? No one ever looked up to the USA except those who agreed with what we do. And Germany has NOT been a close ally. West Germany was, but now we have a large contingent of the reunified communists still dragging Germany back into the mire of socialism.
Gamingmuseum.com: Give your 3D accelerator a rest.
What do you mean the UN wasn't in existence during the majority of US elections? I'm fairly certain no nations were legitimate until the UN said so! [/sarcasm]
Viral software licensing is not freedom, it is in fact GNU/Socialism.
I have the main section of the code. Here it is:
vote_count++;
But if we allowed for more debates and actual factual statements in advertising, how would we get our traditional idiot in the oval office?
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