[Am-info] Voting the Microsoft Way

[Mitch Stone]

I picked up on the vote hacking story and blogged it. If you do get a 
response from the serveusa.gov people, please let me/us know. Or even 
if you don't. Either way, it's bloggable. (But then, what isn't?)

Mitch

On Tuesday, July 15, 2003, at 06:56 PM, Roy Bixler wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 09:26:26AM -0700, Mitch Stone wrote:
>> http://www.accidentalexpert.com/blog/
>
> I went to the 'serveusa.gov' Web site, clicked on their contact link
> and asked them why they are requiring use of the Windows operating
> system to vote and why alternative platforms are excluded.  They don't
> require Internet Explorer because Netscape v. 6 is allowed and the
> only other requirement they mention is SSL v. 3 support in the
> browser.  Internet Explorer and Netscape are not the only browsers
> that meet this requirement, so I wonder if the Windows requirement is
> simply for lack of testing on other operating systems.  It would be
> interesting to see if anyone over there cares to respond.
>
> Also, one of my compadres recently e-mailed me the following links
> which take on this topic from a different angle:
>
> http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0307/S00064.htm
> http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0307/S00065.htm
>
> Apparently some government bodies are deploying these systems without
> adequate thought given to possible problems electronic voting can
> cause, such as falsifiability and lack of a good audit trail.  It's a
> "brave new world."
>
> -- 
> Roy Bixler <rcb@bix.org>
> Acid absorbs 47 times its weight in excess Reality.
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