choices and preparedness
Took a break to eat cereal and read. This is sad really, but also a reminder to boys and girls that carefully weighing criticism is as important as planning with self confidence. There are many sides to every issue, usually for good reasons.
After the 1993 bombing attack on the World Trade Center, Giuliani decided that the city needed an emergency-management-command center and so he had one built—in the World Trade Center. Critics suggested that locating the facility in a building that was likely to come under attack wasn’t a very good idea.
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Poor planning and execution or intended ability to commit large scale fraud?
Diebold GEMS central tabulator [still] contains a stunning security hole
What really bothers me is that it seems I will have no idea if my vote counts or proof that it’s been cast appropriately. In addition, the site describes the use of three separate “books” in the Microsoft Access database “vote ledger” that in an accounting type context seems to open the door to fraud. Backup records seem to come to mind but I’m guessing that is better handled through some other less hidden manner.
Whether you vote absentee, on touch-screens, or on paper ballot (fill in the bubble) optical scan machines, all votes are ultimately brought to the “mother ship,” the central tabulator at the county which adds them all up and creates the results report.These systems are used in over 30 states and each counts up to two million votes at once.
I’m sort of waiting for someone to tell me this tabulator or a similar system has always been used and things have always worked fine up to now. I just want some kind of closure on this nonsense.
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