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Rick Amos
Voting Rights Forum Participant
Username: Voter65
Post Number: 2
Registered: 06-2006
Best of Black Box? N/A
Votes: 0 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Friday, June 30, 2006 - 5:50 pm: | 
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We could all Learn how to hack the Voting Machines, making them unuseable.
This is a very simple fix to a massive problem. If 10,000 of us knew how to hack the voting machines it would become news.They would then have to make them more secure or remove them from service. Who out there knows how to hack the voting machines, and would like to spread the word.
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Alan Brau
Voting Rights Forum Participant
Username: Alan_brau
Post Number: 36
Registered: 01-2006
Best of Black Box? N/A
Votes: 0 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Friday, June 30, 2006 - 6:11 pm: |
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Strategically, your idea might be effective in the short run. A large number of avowed hackers threatening to hack the election certainly would bring attention to the problem. Unfortunately, when the neocon noise machine processes your threat through the media, it will make the Voting Rights Activist side look really, really bad.
I truly believe that the only real solution to this mess is to continue to take the high road, and behave as the law-abiding citizens that we are.
Let's not underestimate the integrity our Constitution. The rule of law will eventually prevail.
Cheers,
Al
(Message edited by Alan_brau on June 30, 2006) |
Michael W Mather
Voting Rights Forum Participant
Username: Gypsy
Post Number: 62
Registered: 07-2005
Best of Black Box? N/A
Votes: 0 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Saturday, July 1, 2006 - 11:35 am: |
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Alan: Let's not underestimate the integrity our Constitution. The rule of law will eventually prevail.
Or maybe not ...
Consortium News:
"... One of the legal theorists who developed these concepts of an all-powerful Executive was Samuel Alito, who became Bush’s second appointee to the Supreme Court, after Chief Justice Roberts.
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Yet, since the “war on terror” is a vague concept – unlike other wars fought by the United States – there also is no expectation that Bush’s usurpation of traditional American freedoms is just a short-term necessity. Instead it is a framework for future governance.
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Election 2006, however, may well decide whether the future of the United States will be as a nation of laws with citizens who continue to possess “unalienable rights” – or whether Bush becomes a modern-day king and all other Americans become his subjects [once Bush appoints another Alito-like Justice to enshrine a hard right majority on the Supreme Court]."
But I agree that promoting a 'hacking campaign' would be a poor tactic with unintended consequences.
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