tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89422982024-02-08T15:43:01.160-05:00Dedicated to increasing voter participation by promoting wider ballot access for issues and ideas, candidates and citizens.applemcghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08938924828547801044noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8942298.post-1163269198944149452006-11-11T12:33:00.000-05:002006-11-11T13:19:58.953-05:00

The November/December issue of Technology Review in the Hack section, shows how the Diebold voting machines can be hacked to steal an election. In addtion to a photo-essay of the hack in progress, a how-to-hack lesson, the article offers Diebold's repsonse and the counter-response from Princton's Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP), where the study was conducted. The article

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To keep things moving along, your SBS moderator is compiling a list of the various states' election board web pages. As a starter, a rubric, or scoring method suggests itself. I've furled a starter set under my home state of New Jersey. Here's a brief outline: prominence (or lack thereof) the governor ease of access (from "www.state.XX.us") how customer-focused is the page (tell

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Here's an idea: if you want to listen to someone from the other side, pick a Republican from a Blue state or a Democrat from a Red state. This evening, on the News Hour, former Sen Warren Rudman (R-NH) and Vin Webber (R-MN) seemed most reasonable in discussing the future of bi-partisanship in the next four years. To have any hope of dialogue in the body politic, we have to be prepared to

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Correction: the good news is from Maine _and_ NEBRASKA. Both states (not just Maine) select presidential electors by Congressional district, reserving two for the state. What a concept? Are we proceeding to a parliamentary system here? Imagine. We elect congressional representatives every two years, a president every four, and senators every six. How can we merge the results of "

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OK, this all may be a little naieve. On reflection, the American necessity of winning is what gave us the two-party system. So, ... a state by state remake of the national election process may be the last thing to change. While it looks like the Colorado initiative has gone down, the news from Maine is encouraging. Maine is the one state which casts its electoral votes by congressional

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It's happened. In a cynical moment, an Ohio federal appeals court overturned earlier rulings barring partisan challengers in today's polling in Ohio. Your moderator, as revealed earlier, is a partisan challenger, simply for the purpose of picking up the vote totals in the local races. Having just voted, there was no line at my precinct, but the flow was continuous. A person had just exited

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On Election Eve 2004, the news is rife with the Ohio Poll Watcher challenge. This is certainly a partisan effort. As such, your moderator identifies four levels of partisanship (in order of our acceptance): non-partisan anti-partisan bi-partisan (just plain) partisan. At State By State, we prefer, NON partisan. It would be nice if partisanship were not necessary to treat us all as

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My friends at LLC, thanks for stopping by. Please consider joining our mailing list at Yahoogroups: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/statebystate where the discussion will be of a non-partisan nature, to the extent that extending ballot access for ideas, candidates, and citizens can be non-partisan. While I speak of "we" and "us" here, it's yet only in the eclesiastical sense. For the time

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A recent editorial by Noam Chomsky The disconnect in American democracy Noam Chomsky - 10/28/04 The U.S. presidential race, impassioned almost to the point of hysteria, hardly represents the healthiest democratic impulse... go to: http://www.vailtrail.com/newsdetail.cfm?NewsID=2481 Chomsky makes many of the points we favor at the State By State Network. He observes both political

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We're open for business. See our web site at StateByState.Net There you'll find our platform, an opportunity to join and help with the campaign. We're making this our campaign "going forward", ahead of all other "issues". These will take care of themselves with a more vigorous ballot access, when more citizens see themselves as having a voice, when the public cynicsm has been lowered to an "

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