Yes John,

When one tags along with or participates in the EI movement, deja vu happens all over again.

Probably could modify the words of that song "Lightning Is Striking Again" and make it "Deja Vu Is Striking Again".

As long as one does not put dates, places, and people on the articles they can be recycled. Hey that's green baby.

And it could be automated ... ... seriously, without the movement we are in even more trouble of America morphing into Amurka than we are today.

Here is a pre-voting story that may effect voting. I am wondering about:

The State Department says it is trying to determine whether three contract workers had a political motive for looking at Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's passport file.

(Huffpo).

From the viewpoint of the bushies the passport invasion story is a leak, because they not only allowed the privacy invasion for political purposes, they thought they had a lid on it.

The spying on Americans by Amurkans found some vulnerabilities in some state department folks. They were told to keep a lid on the fact that Obama's files were being rifled thru ... or else.

Someone leaked the truth. Now the bushie army is in full retrobution mode trying to find the leaker.

The leaders of the state department say they found out from reporters about the Obama privacy invasion ... now how much does that sound like the Scooter story?

The real story is that the incident of privacy invasion was leaked. Daniel Ellsberg, Clint Curtis, and Sibel Edmonds were where when this was leaked?

Anybody out there living in Co.? Noticed any racism? Seems to go along with the worst states fixed election systems. Worse the racism ..more irregularities show up in elections. And the more predictable the problem....the quicker we can get fair elections. And elect leaders who represent US...instead of corporations.N.H. was a surprise to me....as to just how rotten their system is.

Hey John, the Brookings Institute on cspan right now 10:15 EST on voting technology!

Apropos the CSPAN voting technology conference the authors on this panel claimed that touch screen voting technology was the most satisfactory with minor glitches. They did not study hacking or misdesign of software nor wholesale fraud because vote stealing has always been a problem in America. They gave a favorable report on Diebold systems. I didn't hear them mention Sequoia.

From CSAN-ID: 204495 - 03/21/2008 - 1:29
Voting Technology: The Not-So-Simple Act of Casting a Ballot, published by the Brookings Institute. The book addresses important questions about how Americans respond to the voting systems they use on Election Day. Have new voting systems improved citizen satisfaction and trust in the voting process? Can citizens cast their ballots without making the same errors that occurred in Florida in 2000?

I saw that story earlier, Eric. I am just wondering if what might be happening is that the DRE folks are seeing the writing on the wall and want a " best user interface" Oscar to keep the possibility of some advance orders alive for not yet existent products.

I am not a corporate manager, etc. It just struck me that, while user interface is definitely a valid, important part of the voting experience, it is disingenuous not to talk about the fact that it's a wonderful voting experience if you don't care if your vote was actually counted.

Kinda like:
"We have a great nuclear plant hear. Cheap power, if you don't add in the cost of the unsolved waste problem."

You sure could tell the vendors paid in part for the study! I took notes and the pathetic built in bias was obvious! Thank God for the people who asked questions afterwards exposing the fact the user ease was a higher priority than security in their probably millions of dollars spent for a slanted study. How they trashed paper ballots and never mentioned "secure chain of custody" is beyond belief!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Brad, you should check out their book:
Voting Technology: A Not So Simple (something I didn't catch) to Cast a Ballot
I'm sure you'd have a field day with it!

The name of the book is:
Voting Technology: The Not-So-Simple Act of Casting a Ballot, published by the Brookings Institute