It is impossible for a company to be non-partisan. That is why it would be nice to develop an open source solution. That would be non-partisan. Having being created by democrats, republicans, anarchists, whoever wanted to contribute. -JP -----Original Message----- From: Barry Fitzgerald [mailto:bkfsec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 2:19 PM To: vvaduva@xxxxxxxxxx Cc: bugtraq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Polazzo Justin; pressinfo@xxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Diebold Global Election Management System (GEMS) Backdoor Account Allows Authenticated Users to Modify Votes vvaduva@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > >Well now you are getting assinine and political! If that's the case, >why would I trust my democrat baker with making non-poisoned bread for >me? The problem is technical not political! e-voting is >CRAP...insecure, inaccurate. Stick with what works, i.e. paper >ballots. They are cheap, accountable and hard to fake. > > > The problem is both technical and political. The political impacts the technical -- the technical aspect doesn't exist in a bubble. Likewise, I wouldn't trust a voting machine that was created by a company whose executives promised elections to democrats. I wasn't making a point about the party, I was making a point about the appearance of partisanship. Voting machine companies should be inherently non-partisan. -Barry
