Jim Flowers' Radio Weblog

	Friday, April 23, 2004

Just testing something...

Here are Long County's election results.

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	Tuesday, October 07, 2003

Time to Recall E-Vote Machines?. Recent reports claim the software in Diebold electronic voting machines is insecure. But the policies and procedures for using the system in California's recall election raise concerns that the software isn't the only problem. By Kim Zetter. [Wired News]

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	Wednesday, September 24, 2003

Can Diebold Be This Stupid?. BlackBoxBoting.org says lawyers for Diebold, maker of electronic voting systems, have forced the site to shut down on alleged intellectual... [Dan Gillmor's eJournal] comment [] 8:02:14 PM

Some things never change

The questions being asked by Congress mirror the ones asked here in the Georgia legislature. Interesting reading though...

Congress questions database protection proposal. Act would allow owners of commercial databases to sue anyone who sells portions of their databases, if those databases contain time-sensitive material and the owner incurred a "substantial" cost when generating or maintaining the material. [Computerworld News]

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Examples like this

Can make strong arguments against state level policies that support RIAA tactics.

RIAA's case of mistaken identity?. Record labels' attorneys withdraw their first file-swapping suit after an apparent mix-up in Net identification. [CNET News.com - Front Door]

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	Saturday, September 20, 2003

Reinventing the wheel.

Someone needs to tell Gillmor and the EFF folks of the work Georgia Tech has done.

Electronic Voting and the IEEE. The Electronic Frontier Foundation notes serious problems with the IEEE's approach to electronic voting systems, and urges members and security... [Dan Gillmor's eJournal]

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	Wednesday, September 17, 2003

RIAA Tactics Under Scrutiny. Is forcing an Internet service provider to turn over the names of suspected music pirates constitutional? An appeals court is challenging the RIAA to demonstrate that it is. [Wired News]

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Senator Takes a Swing at RIAA. A new bill in Congress mandates more privacy protections for Internet users in response to the recording industry's avalanche of subpoenas. The Brownback bill also calls on companies to label products like copy-protected CDs. By Katie Dean. [Wired News]

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	Thursday, August 21, 2003

My gut was right

In previous posts I said something was not quite right about the critical study. Seems my hunch was on the money.

New E-Voting Machine Furor. The co-author of a report critical of touch-screen voting software resigns from the board of directors of a competing company, raising cries of conflict of interest. [Wired News]

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	Monday, August 18, 2003

Latinos get e-vote -- do we?

I still think that the criticism of e-vote technologies is not necessarily on the button, so to speak. The cry for paper audit trails is a false one as some of our analog technologies never had such a trail -- and the criticism ignores the obvious paper failure of all time -- Florida.

Argentines to Get the E-Vote. More than 500,000 citizens in Buenos Aires province will cast their votes for governor using a keyboard and a computer screen in an upcoming election. The system has been successfully tested in Brazil, but will it fly in another embattled Latin American country? By Flavio Bustos. [Wired News]

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