Who's this jerk and her tortured logic?

[Wilms]

Among other things, she argues that Joe-Six-Pack isn't worried about electronic voting security, so that makes it ok to use it.



OPINION
Don't Strangle E-Voting With Paper

By Sonia Arrisona, TechNewsWorld columnist, is director of Technology Studies at the California-based Pacific Research Institute and co-author of "Upgrading America's Ballot Box: The Rise of E-voting."

TechNewsWorld

01/06/06

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While popular, e-voting is at risk of being stymied by nervous Nellies and the anti-property lobby.

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In California and other states, the march to make e-voting machines perfect using legislative dictates is in vogue. For instance, even after California passed a law to force all e-voting machines to have a voter-verified paper audit trail, state Senator Debra Bowen introduced yet more legislation for paper. At this rate, one might expect to find a paper-covered computer in the voting booth.
Outdated Methods

Bowen's legislation increased the state's commitment to slow, old and inefficient paper voting methods by specifying that "manual recounts of votes" requires that "the paper record copies or the voter verified paper audit trail of the electronically recorded vote are counted manually." In a press release on this issue, she echoed worn out anti-property rhetoric that will ring strange to freedom-loving Californians considering her run for Secretary of State.

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According to a 2004 Winston Group survey, voters using e-voting machines are just as likely to trust their voting technology as voters using lever machines and optical scanners. The survey further revealed that seven out of ten voters were not concerned with the security Free Trial: Eliminate IM compliance and security threats with policy and enforcement. of e-voting equipment, and that an overwhelming majority of voters who have used e-voting systems agreed that DRE devices are helpful in reducing electoral maladies, such as accidental over- or under-voting. In short, e-voting is pretty popular, but sure to touch off discussion as the next election day draws near.

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http://www.technewsworld.com/story/48152.html

[shenmue]

1. That's like saying...

they can't find the guy who robbed me, so it's okay that he did.

What b.s. is that?

I bet people actually do care if the votes were counted.

Do you trust the makers of the voting machines to bring out the truth?

Fox and the henhouse, anyone?

[Sarah Ibarruri]

2. This is who "they" are:

http://papervotecanada.blogspot.com/2005_07_03_papervotecanada_archive.html

The authors are Sonia Arrison and Vince Vasquez from the "Pacific Research Institute", which appears to be a charming US right-wing "think tank". So wise are they that they have produced an entire 25-page report on electronic voting Upgrading America's Ballot Box: The Rise of E-Voting">Upgrading America's Ballot Box: The Rise of E-Voting (PDF).

__________________________

In the words of the so-called Pacific Research Institute, here is who this Sonia Arrison is:
http://www.pacificresearch.org/speakers/index.html#arrison

(You can send her e-mail and tell her to stop licking *'s ass) lol

__________________________

In the words of the Wikipedia, the so-called Pacific Research Institute is associated with the Libertarian CATO Institute. We know what that means.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pacific_Research_Institute

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To sum it all up in my words, they're right wingnuts, paid by folks like Abramoff, to defend the right of the rich to get richer off the backs of the middle class, by using white collar corruption and crime, such as manipulated electronic ballot.

[punpirate]

3. Umm, I think this ought to answer your question...

... about motives:

http://www.ewg.org/reports/GeorgeWBush/enviro_advisors.html?print_version=1

Cheers.

[ThoughtCriminal]

4. "anti-property lobby"????

Who's that? People who don't want to be treated like "Property"?

[kster]

5. Joe six pack is very concerned about voting security

so I've heard.

[Steve A Play]

6. Woah! Lots of good background info

on this thread. Too much work to cut and paste it all here.

Looks like we're not the only ones who want to know.

Steven P.

[galloglas]

14. Another tentacle on this Octopus

is, I think, TCS.

Here is a cut'n'paste of what I got from them yesterday. Even a "Jacques Six-Pack"! Headers in bold further down if anyone wants to join the hunt.

It is from:TCS Daily [e-mail]
or the direct URL for their web pageis

http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=010406H

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[kster]

7. (Spelling is different)Sonia Arrison is an idiot

Sonia Arrison doesn't think the libraries of the 21st century should be public. In her elitist world, only those who pay should have access to the knowledge. And I shouldn't be able to grab a cup of coffee and enjoy Mayor Newsom's wonderful victory of providing free Wi-Fi at Union Square.


http://robertbrigham.blogspot.com/2004/12/sonia-arrison-is-idiot.html


Heres a link with a different spelling

http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Why-Socialized-Broadband-Wont-Work-38627.html

[Steve A Play]

8. Hot damn! I found her web site!

http://www.soniaarrison.com/

Here's a taste.


Don’t Strangle E-Voting With Paper
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* Sonia Arrison Columns

— Sonia @ 6:05 pm

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s State of the State address this week reminded California voters that in ten months they’ll be casting ballots again, many using electronic voting devices. While popular, e-voting is at risk of being stymied by nervous Nellies and the anti-property lobby

One frequently cited concern with e-voting machines, otherwise known as direct recording electronic (DRE) devices, is reliability. The question of stability and backups becomes an issue every time an industry is on the verge of switching from paper to electronics.

Read more here.
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Anyone care to leave a well worded comment?

Steven P.

[Wilms]

9. I wrote the editor and asked for another professional opinion. n/t

[kster]

10. Am I seeing double

[Steve A Play]

11. LOL! POD PEOPLE!

I swear they're cloning them!

More from sweatheart,

Study Affirms Elections Chief: He Told Us So

TOM JACKSON
Published: Jul 10, 2005

K urt Browning wasn't looking for anything special on the day marking his 30th anniversary with the Pasco County elections office, but surprises are often the spice of life, even within a bureaucracy.

Thus did Browning, Pasco's elections supervisor for the past 24 1/2 of those 30 years, gladly received a welcome alternative to the usual cake and bouquet of balloons: affirmation of what he has been saying since before Florida's pregnant chad crisis of 2000.

Direct recording electronic devices - DREs, or, more commonly, touch-screen voting machines - are, indeed, safe, accurate, reliable, simple, accessible and eminently hacker-proof.

This conclusion, embraced for years by Browning, recently was reached by the Pacific Research Institute, a San Francisco-based, nonpartisan think tank dedicated to ideals of freedom, opportunity and individual responsibility through free-market policies.

In ``Upgrading America's Ballot Box: The Rise of E-Voting,'' authors Sonia Arrison and Vince Vasquez dismiss as unfounded Internet-fired rumors of conspiracy, fraud and rigged elections tied to touch-screen voting. Like Browning, Arrison and Vasquez lament the hysteria of partisan critics who latched onto misinformation and half-truths as proof that DREs had been programmed to produce a desired result.

``There is no serious research that shows e-voting rigged the results of the <2004> election,'' they wrote. ``Claims by groups such as blackboxvoting.org gloss over the complexities in elections. ... They also ignore the reality that complaints with e-voting machines were negligible.''

Guess Who Really Likes It

The PRI study also says that e- voting has broad appeal among groups with traditional ties to Democrats or otherwise liberal candidates - minorities, the elderly and the disabled - who describe the process as user-friendly.

<more>

http://pasco.tbo.com/pasco/MGB0N3REYAE.html

Steven P.

[Kurovski]

15. That is just too dang funny.

nice catch.

Coulter could put all the speculation on her original gender to rest by claiming her as her daughter.

[GuvWurld]

12. This is the worst stuff I've ever read. But it shows...

they are fighting us.

Ignore. Laugh. Fight. Win.

[Wilms]

13. .