POLL: When will Bush Leave Office? And more...

[BradBlog]

Is it getting quiet around here...or is it just me? (Not that I'm complaining, mind you!) -- Brad

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POLL: When Will George W. Bush Leave Office?

• Prior to currently scheduled departure date
  
• On currently scheduled departure date
  
• After currently scheduled departure date

CAST YOUR VOTE: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=3930

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Election Costs Doubled in Utah Due to Use of Diebold Touch-Screen Voting Systems
Sticker Shock May Force Jurisdictions to Revert to Hand Counted Paper Ballots Next Year...

If you needed any more evidence to counter the argument that it would be "too expensive" to dump all the shitty, unreliable, inaccurate, hackable, disenfranchising touch-screen (DRE) voting systems in favor of paper ballots, just take a look at Utah. They're the state which pushed out heroic 23-year Emery County Election Clerk Bruce Funk because he had the temerity to allow independent computer security experts to test the Diebold touch-screen systems the state was forcing him to use. (The experts found massive security flaws described as "the most severe" ever discovered).

Well, now Utah has finally discovered that their switch from punch-cards to shitty, unreliable, inaccurate, hackable, disenfranchising Diebold touch-screen systems has doubled the cost of their elections. And then some. Get a load of this...

FULL STORY: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=3929

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'RIVERSIDE CHALLENGE': 'Hot Rod Harri's Fight to the Finnish'

Concerning Riverside County, California Supervisor Jeff Stone's public, video taped "thousand to one" bet to Election Integrity advocates that they couldn't find a hacker who could manipulate the county's Sequoia voting system, and the acceptance of that challenge by noted Finnish hacker of Diebold systems Harri Hursti, the Press Enterprise's Dan Bernstein wrote an amusing column last week which we meant to run previously. Here's a bit of it now in any case...

URL: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=3928

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[truedelphi]

1. I'll make mine paper ballots even if more expensive BUT SINCE THEY

Aren't - Let's have them all be PAPER BALLOTS

[Seeking Serenity]

2. January 20, 2009, at 12 noon. (n/t)

[PADemD]

3. He'll probably be on a plane to Paraguay while the new

President is being sworn in.

[Seeking Serenity]

4. Is Paraguay the new Argentina for folks like him? (n/t)

[BradBlog]

5. Is Fox "News" the new "Jail" for Republicans?

So far, "Prior to..." is winning the poll. But it's early still, and the boys from Diebold haven't yet gotten to work on the results ;-)