{"id":291,"date":"2003-11-04T03:04:22","date_gmt":"2003-11-04T08:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/diebold-on-election-day\/"},"modified":"2003-11-04T03:04:22","modified_gmt":"2003-11-04T08:04:22","slug":"diebold-on-election-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/diebold-on-election-day\/","title":{"rendered":"diebold on election day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>the first,  and probably more interesting (to me, anyway) bit of diebold trivia to merit my comment is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacificavc.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/03.html#a430\" class=\"broken_link\">this<\/a> comment by tim oren.  i&#8217;ve been <a href=\"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/10\/diebold_compromises_everything_and_takes_cowards_down_with_them.html\">dancing around this point<\/a>, but tim cuts to the chase &#8211; &#8220;how to destroy a brand, in one easy lesson.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>item, the second:  the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/\">eff<\/a> has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/Legal\/ISP_liability\/OPG_v_Diebold\/20031103_eff_pr.php\" class=\"broken_link\">filed suit<\/a> on the issue.  this is an angle of the story i&#8217;ve avoided, preferring to stick to the policy and business lessons i&#8217;m being handed, but&#8230; now the lawyers are in it, and maybe something interesting will happen with the dmca and the concept of fair use.<\/p>\n<p>and finally, we have this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/ebiz\/0,1272,61045,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1\" class=\"broken_link\">bit<\/a> from wired on how they did electronic voting in australia.  in six months.  with $125,000.  and without hiding anything or creating the appearance of impropriety.  more info from the company is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.softimp.com.au\/evacs.html\" class=\"broken_link\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>now, will someone figure out how to get these compromised voting systems contracts off the books and replace them with something we might trust?<\/p>\n<p>this is election day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>update<\/strong>:  according to <a href=\"http:\/\/rss.com.com\/2100-1028_3-5101623.html?part=rss&amp;tag=feed&amp;subj=news\" class=\"broken_link\">this<\/a>, the $125,000 development cost of the australian system is $70,000 less than diebold&#8217;s contributions to the republican party in the past two years (assuming they both used the same kinds of dollars).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the first, and probably more interesting (to me, anyway) bit of diebold trivia to merit my comment is this comment by tim oren. i&#8217;ve been dancing around this point, but tim cuts to the chase &#8211; &#8220;how to destroy a brand, in one easy lesson.&#8221; item, the second: the eff has filed suit on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}