hey folks,
I apologize if this has already been posted, my health keeps me from reading kos as often as I need to;(....
but either way, I need ALL of you to FORWARD this to EVERYONE and all your e-lists/e-discussions.
--I'm posting
what might be one of our few methods
of fighting for or
hopefully stopping the election electronics from making another cheat/fraud of an election.
"When you register for the Election Transparency Project, you'll be participating in the first phase of a multi-year, nationwide program of targeted election observation. Our goal is to uncover and document election problems, and make recommendations for improving future elections.
For more information on the importance of transparency, read "Making Democracy Transparent", written by Stanford computer science professor Dr. David Dill, who is also Verified Voting's founder.
Verified Voting will provide Election Transparency volunteers with guidelines and questionnaires for observing and reporting on various parts of the electoral process - you choose which portions interest you most. Once you've collected the information, we'll provide you with an online web-based form where you can easily add your observations and notes to those gathered by other observers all over the country.
Verified Voting will make publish the Election Transparency data after removing all sensitive/personal information. We will analyze the data and make appropriate recommendations to improve the transparency and accuracy of future elections.
For more information on the importance of transparency, read "Making Democracy Transparent",
http://www.verifiedvotingfoundation.org/... written by Stanford computer science professor Dr. David Dill, who is also Verified Voting's founder..."
..here's their page:
http://www.verifiedvotingfoundation.org/...
Lastly, might I do a little rant for about 30 seconds:
I have worked in Silicon Valley and with computers in general for most of my adult life/career.
-and the idea of electronic voting is so idiotic that it is like inventing a spaceship to take you to your local grocery store--over used, over spent technology that has been proven by Princeton in a study (I can get u the link) to be EASY as pie to cheat.
Worse--the Princeton study showed that thru the memory cards or similar element, the cheating-hack can be EASILY passed between machines, so now it's a PROVEN fact that electronic voting is a disaster AND it cost us tons in tax money to buy all these fancy machines that are just masturbation for gadget lovers.
All u need is a damn piece of paper ballot and a pen to circle your choice--the paper would be recycled & thus no waste on the environment;
the pens would be dollar story el cheapo, so the cost would be low as hell.
Even if you made a mistake & circled the wrong vote, you'd just tell one of the workers/helpers, they'd make a note on that ballot & put it in a special box for "accidental mistake ballots" and hand you another easy paper ballot to re-do your vote and that's the end of story.
I cannot believe how the neocons have tricked the country into this gadget voting so that fraud will be as easy as pie.
ok, rant complete, whew.
REMEMBER --- FORWARD this to EVERYONE & all e-lists.