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John Edwards on Open Source Voting Machines
goombah99 writes "John Edwards, the presidential candidate and lawyer, is standing out from the pack by showing himself to be a bit tech savvy. In 2003 he was a guest host on Lawrence Lessig's Blog, giving his view on the imbalance between property right protection and the good of public access. As of this week he has become the first presidential candidate to support 'open source code' for election systems in addition to voter verified paper records. He's even personally using Twitter. 'Currently, software used in election systems remains the proprietary property of vendors. This situation has created a continual problem when anomalous results have been reported and independent experts are denied the ability to review how the systems work. A growing body of critics oppose this privatization of the voting system.'"
But is the paper distributed under a GPL???? Is it some proprietary paper, or is it open source??
There are 10 kinds of people in this world: those who understand binary, and nine other kinds of people.
This cynical shit is really annoying me. Do you seriously believe that every single senator and congressman out there wants to flout the constitution and destroy the American way? Are they really all as crooked as you like to think? Get a grip!
Bush may not be the most successful prez all round but he's been successful enough. And he's been a buttload more successful than leftie posterboys like Clinton.