[TriLUG] My part in the elections next week

[Steve Litt]

None less than Richard Stallman stated that computer voting is a really bad 
idea, free software or not. He said that when I suggested free software be 
used for national elections instead of Diebold. He made the point that 
computers could be tampered with no matter how "open" the software, and a 
last minute tampering wouldn't be caught by "many eyes".

SteveT

On Thursday 04 May 2006 10:34 pm, William Sutton wrote:
> Well, for this election, it may be a tad quick...if we really want to do
> this, I'm happy to start thinking on some specs....
>
> --
> William Sutton
>
> On Thu, 4 May 2006, Kevin Otte wrote:
> > On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 10:23:19PM -0400, William Sutton wrote:
> > > Me?  We have lots of talent here, and in any case, I can't technically
> > > be a member, now can I? :D
> >
> > Who says you have to be a member to do grunt work?  You trolled it, you
> > write it.