Monthly Archives: July 2004

BlogWood comments make the paper, mostly

Chris, a loyal BlogWood reader, sent an email to the Tampa City Council yesterday, just as I suggested in this post on hysterical Christians. Chris also posted the exact same message as a comment on that post. (Scroll all the way down to see the comments) Today, the SP TImes did an article on reaction

E-voting? May as well flip a coin.

Remember a few days ago, when we discovered that Miami had lost computer data from the 2002 election – data it should have been backing up and archiving? Officials blamed the loss on a computer crash and said that no backups existed. Well, now the data has been mysteriously recovered, found backed up on a

Registration deadline looms

Monday is the deadline to Register to Vote in the Aug. 31 primary.

Ernest digs the Pigs

Pig mobile makes the paper. More Pig Mobile action.

Stone the infidel!

A group of young children were planning a holiday show downtown. They scheduled a series of meetings, and before every meeting began, they invited a different neighborhood kid to invoke the spirit of Santa Clause so that their endeavor would be blessed with good luck. Then one day a kid rose to give the invocation

Today on Sonic Detour

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GOP does not trust paperless e-voting

“It’s an astonishing level of hypocrisy,” said Sharon Lettman-Pacheco of the liberal People for the American Way Foundation, which sued the state seeking to force manual recounts for touch screen machines. “Which one is it: Do the machines work, or do they know something that we don’t?” Obviously, they know something. Now, I’ve been encouraging

Want your vote to count? Vote absentee.

I got mine. Here’s how to get yours: Note – In Hillsborough and many other counties, absentee ballots are handled with an optical scan system, a very reliable method that leaves a countable paper trail. Hillsborough County residents (More information: General Hillsborough County info) Here’s a link to all of the Florida county elections supervisors.

Major E-voting problem emerges

I’ve said it before: no conspiracy is needed. These are mostly Microsoft Windows based machines and they are prone to crash and are very buggy – just like the machines that most of you use at home and work. The errors that make the news are known errors. What else is lurking out there that

Bear with me

I’m fighting an attack of comment spam today – automated comments posted to the site advertising whatever. I’m trying various methods to block and clean up, but in the meantime, I have no time for posting. Back soon…