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[alexr_rwx]

Weird moment: looking at some stuff I wrote a few weeks ago, I had a very vivid sense of sitting in the place where I wrote it, which was the lounge by the lobby in the music building at UGA.

Does this happen for anybody else? Or maybe other people don't do work in as many different places? ...

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Also: public service announcement that you should go vote! Tomorrow is election day, but you already knew! Save the world! Unless of course Diebold (major GOP supporter and likely the manufacturer of your electronic voting machine) decides that they don't like your views and chooses to disenfranchise you! I expect that my absentee ballot will likely not get counted, as Florida elections have already been reported Quite Shady! Also! Why did they bother with touchscreens that can get "miscalibrated" when they could have installed Plain Ol' Buttons Like On ATMs? !

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Now see here, my good man,

[sault.livejournal.com]

Yeah, sometimes I have a sense of being in a place when I am reading (or writing), but it is often not associated with what I am reading/writing. The set of places with which this happens is small: the corner of Sixth Street and McMillan (West Campus); Broadway and 4th Street (Columbus, GA); Ethel and McMillan (no surprise there).

You should watch this utterly disheartening video chronicling election fraud in the United States! http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7236791207107726851 It will depress the hizzle out of you!

[praetorian42.livejournal.com]

And also why don't the machines print out a receipt of your ballot just like ATM's?

Deibold is also one of the biggest makers of ATM and banking equipment in the U.S. Obviously they are capable of producing equipment that is incredibly secure, but they choose not to do that for election machinery because A) It isn't required by stupid Secretaries of State, and B) It furthers their political goals.

Democracy Go!

[reality-calls.livejournal.com]

On the Daily Show they made a good point that the software used in voting machines is covered by the same copyright laws as any software, which means nobody can double check it.  For all we know, there could be a whopping big back door built right into the code for the purpose of tampering with votes.  In my opinion, this is definitely not an area where copyright law should apply.

(Also, the results should really be stored in an encrypted file so nobody can tamper with them.)

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