Re: More reasons to avoid electronic voting!

[Ralph Shnelvar <ralphs@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 00:43:36 -0700, you wrote:

>The concern over the first story is ridiculous.
>go read about X-10.
>Info tx along power lines is old technology. Been around for decades.
>It will not open up computers to hacking anymore than they are exposed to it
>on Broadband or DSL.
>and, those machines under consideration around *here* have no internet
>access capability anyway, regardless of how you intend to transmit it.
>
>The second story is nothing new either.....
>silicon Valley Geeks have been making back doors and spyware ever since
>software was invented.
>how are *they* stopped from putting trapdoors into software meant for
>electronic voting???

The fact that you understand the second point and yet cannot follow through
to understand that electronic voting machines should not come anywhere near
the vote counting process is truly depressing.

"Hey, that's just the way it is and has been for a while," is precisely what
we're trying to correct.

Nonetheless, it is consistent with your illogical position that the
Libertarian State Party is bound by rules (no endorsement of non-Libertarian
candidates) that state-authorized affiliates are not bound by.

[Although Mr. Shaffer is the official voice of the Libertarian Party in
Boulder County, he does not speak for me.  Indeed, I ask the State Board to
issue a public statement in support of hand-counted paper ballots and to
denounce Mr. Shaffer's endorsement of the lease of the Hart Intercivic
machinery in Boulder County.]

Ralph Shnelvar
Who holds no official position in the Libertarian Party

>
>Mountains out of molehills......
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Evan Daniel Ravitz [mailto:evan@xxxxxxxx]
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 10:22 PM
>> To: cvv-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: More reasons to avoid electronic voting!
>>
>>
>>
>> Folks,
>>
>> Here are 2 more reasons electronic machines (except "dumb" ones like
>> in the Swiss system) shouldn't be counting votes:
>>
>> Hi-speed internet via power lines means ANY computer could be
>> connected to the outside world (and thus subject to outside control or
>> hacking) even if no phone line, modem, wireless or network connection
>> is evident:
>>
>> http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/02/10/tech/main540094.shtml
>>
>> AND, computers could come brand-new (to Hart, for example) with
>> spyware or "backdoors" built in:
>>
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4849742.stm
>>
>> Evan
>>
>> "If you believe in things that you don't understand, then you suffer."
>> -Stevie Wonder's "Superstition"
>>
>> "Nobody understands everything in commercial US electronic voting
>> systems." -me
>>
>>
>>