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There are significant differences. Here are some key ones that made me a supporter (and precinct delegate) of Obama:

This is so rich. A group is trying an argument from absurdity tactic to show how ridiculous the claim that Washington State’s Andersen v. King County decision is that declared a “legitimate state interest” for the state to restrict same-sex couples from legal marriage.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently published a paper condemning paperless electronic voting machines as insecurable.  I’ll have to read the paper in-depth to see how they came to that strong of a conclusion, but I do know that there is no research showing that a purely electronic system can be completely trustworthy.

Get this:  The list of top terrorist targets from the Department of Homeland Security is seriously braindead.  It includes 1,305 casinos, 234 restaurants, an ice cream parlor, a tackle shop, a flea market, and an Amish popcorn factory  3,650 sites total.  What’s going on?  Pork-barrel politics is what’s going on.  We’re never going to get security right if we continue to make it a parody of itself.

This was the most troubling one:

It’s still a shitty law though.  Something else I will happily ignore to avoid my fair use rights being infringed.  Again, how could I watch DVDs (legally rented/owned) on my Linux box without doing so?

It is hard to believe that such a blatant undervote error could be attributable solely to the DRE itself not properly recording them.  But user interface designs can certainly be abused maliciously, or likely unintentionally, to create these situations.  How ironic is it that the DREs that were touted to Help America Vote are actually helping them to undervote, due to poor design/implementation of the ballots?

Ugh.

Eschaton

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