Dan Wood: The Eponymous Weblog

Dan Wood is co-owner of Karelia Software, creating programs for the Macintosh computer. He is the father of two kids, lives in the Bay Area of California USA, and prefers bicycles to cars. This site is his weblog, which mostly covers geeky topics like Macs and Mac Programming.

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Thu, 29 Apr 2004

Californians -- how you can help get rid of electronic voting in our state

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Being in the computer industry, you would think that I am a big fan of electronic and computer innovations. For the most part, that's absolutely true — but one place where I don't think we are ready yet is electronic voting. The systems are incredibly insecure, subject to tampering, and completely unverifiable. I want my vote to be counted, to be counted correctly, to be counted accurately, and to, if needed, be re-counted. The current electronic voting systems in use now have problems with all of these issues. I have serious doubts if my votes and my wife's votes were counted in the 2002 election.

So in California, I heard on the news this morning that the Secretary of State is going to be making his decision in a few days about whether to decertify certain voting machines in some counties that had some problems. But that's not enough ... they ALL need to go.

If you agree, please contact the Secretary of State's office — I just did, and spoke to a nice receptionist who diligently wrote down my comments. Their number is (916) 657-2166. And do it soon; apparently the decision is happening soon.

(For readers inside or outside of California, here's a link to check out: verifiedvoting.org.)

Rock the vote!

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Pledge to vote on November 2nd, and get a free iTunes song --- but hurry if you want the song!!