Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
“As 2007 rolls in, millions of Americans will have to make what looks like a momentous technical decision: Should they upgrade to the latest version of Microsoft Windows? At the same time, legislators and election boards will be pondering a far more important decision: Do we want Microsoft Windows – or any operating system – running elections?” asks Mike Hemowitz of the Baltimore Sun. A very good question that can be answered easily. No! No software for casting ballots. No ‘1’s’ and ‘0’s’. No DRE’s in our elections. No! / On Jan. 4 and 5 Democracy will again be under attack as the vendor sponsored Election Center goes to Washington DC in hopes of influencing your congress people and Senators to vote against new legislation that we have been working for over the past couple years. Call your Senator and Congressman/woman and ask them not to be fooled by this group. They do not speak for the voters and they do not speak for Democracy….
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Only one way to go…..
PAPER BALLOTS…..HAND COUNTED…!!
Anything electronic doesn’t belong in the election process.
John wrote, “On Jan. 4 and 5 Democracy will again be under attack as the vendor sponsored Election Center goes to Washington DC in hopes of influencing your congress people and Senators to vote against new legislation that we have been working for over the past couple years.”
Here is the (partisan Republican, IMO) Election Center
(I still wonder why Ernie Hawkins is on the board of an outfit incorporated out of Virginia, when he’s supposed to be working in the ‘best interests’ of the people of Californee ?, same guy ?)
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And a thread from the ‘Good old days’ about Ernie, Shawn and R Doug
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Be very wary of immediately upgrading to Vista. The most important caveat is that it is extremely resource hungry. You need to carefully evaluate your PC. You will need much more RAM, higher CPU speed, just about all aspects of the machine will need to be pumped up, in order to run Vista efficiently. Vista is just more of what Windoes OS and apps have become: incredible, inefficient, bug-ridden bloat- and vaporware. Note I am a computing professional, I run primarily Windows, although I support (and dislike) an new Apple for my wife, and I run two LINUX boxes for email and research. But securing Windows and keeping it stable has become a thankless fulltime job.
Hand-marked, Hand-Counted ballots. We can do this. We are Americans by gosh!
The United States of Europe, or “EU” which has the euro and is becoming the “dollar” of the oil producing countries, is larger than the United States of America (500 Million Strong).
And one of its major members is going to internet voting (link here)!!
2007 may be even more unsettling than 2006. Keep up the good fight.