[lug] Warning about RTENet.com

[Nate Duehr]

Using Linux or QNX or whatever for little kiosks wouldn't fix this.  You
have really dumb voters and corruption on the part of *both* parties.

Those are all issues technology can only help with, not fix. 

(Monty Python's "I'm being repressed, I'm being repressed!" comes to
mind.)

On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 11:46:44AM +0600, ljp wrote:
> 
> >Have you checked the video of the demonstrations, they're available on the
> >net...
> 
> I've seen them, and they're definitely not peaceful, and very intimidating. 
> Now, if those counties would have used an electronic form of voting, some 
> kind of kiosk or private network, (of course, running the latest linux 
> kernel, and some gnu software - gotta tie in linux somewhere here), none of 
> this would have happened. Or maybe it would have, but we would have never 
> known about it, I dunno. I heard Mr. Putin, of Russia, said "We can send in 
> some observers"... just goes to show you- question authority. I think this 
> whole thing is going to cause a lot of counties around the country to move 
> to electronic voting. At least the wealthy counties. Probably not internet 
> voting, as some would have it. But a secure, private form. Which begs the 
> question, is a private network, using phone lines, secure? Or would the 
> transfer of data, be physical?
> I think this is the first time I have heard of a politician (at least here 
> in the US) suing to NOT count votes. I think its funny, Canada had an 
> election, using old fashioned, paper ballots marked by an 'X' with a 
> pencil, HAND counted ALL of the ballots, in 24 hours (or so).
> Now, someone working on embedded linux systems, should develop an 
> electronic voting system, or we should all start using paper/pencil ballots.
> 
> my 2 cents...
> 
> ljp
> 
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