Tue - September 23, 2003

Electronic Voting and the Future of Democracy


Electronic voting is not ready for prime time. Recent evidence has shown that existing systems have back doors permitting arbitrary untracked changes to vote totals. These systems are in use in 37 states and are rapidly being implemented. The principals in some of the companies are blatantly political as well. This combination threatens the future of democracy.

Electronic voting is not ready for prime time. Recent evidence has shown that existing systems have back doors permitting arbitrary untracked changes to vote totals. These systems are in use in 37 states and are rapidly being implemented. The principals in some of the companies are blatantly political as well. This combination threatens the future of democracy. The recent decision in California against punch card balloting is in favor of these newer systems, most of which are vulnerable and provide no independent verification of actual votes cast.

You can learn more about the problems of electronic voting and the Diebold system in particular, here
http://www.verifiedvoting.org/
or here http://blackboxvoting.org/


You can also sign a petition sponsored by Martin Luther King III of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at Working Assets by visiting
http://www.workingforchange.com/activism/petition.cfm?itemid=14993

Inform yourself about this danger and spread the word.

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Tue - June 17, 2003

Purpose of the Political Blog


This section of the blog is for the political writings of the author.

This section of the blog is for the political writings of the author. Probably not political in the sense of political parties, but more in the sense of civic duty and what is usually called "liberal democracy."

For example, here is something I wrote just after Sept. 11, 2001 .

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Purpose of the Personal Blog


This section of the blog is for personal items of the author.

This section of the blog is for personal items of the author. Interests, photos, etc. For example, this is my home. The picture was taken in early Spring before the leaves came. The funny pattern in the roof is just an artifact of image size reduction.

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Purpose of the Academic Blog


This section of the blog is for Computer Science academic topics.

This section of the blog is for Computer Science academic topics. It will be primarily used for topics related to things elsewhere on this web site. My main page is http://csis.pace.edu/~bergin

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First Entry


The beginning of the weblog.

This is the first entry in what should be a continuing service to my students at Pace University. Some entries will be academic and some will be personal. Some might even be political in the broad sense.

Joseph Bergin

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