19) Electronic voting machines could skew elections
ABC News
"Cheryl Kagan, a former Maryland Democratic legislator, was shocked
when she opened her mail Wednesday morning. Inside, she discovered
three computer discs. With them was an anonymous letter saying the
discs contained the secret source code for vote-counting that could be
used to alter the votes cast through Maryland's new electronic voting
machines. 'My understanding is that with these disks a malicious
person could skew the outcome of an election,' Kagan said. Diebold,
the company that makes the voting machines, told ABC News, 'These
discs do not alter the security of the Diebold touch-screen system in
any way,' because election workers can set their own passwords. But
ABC News has obtained an independent report commissioned by the state
of Maryland and conducted by Science Applications International
Corporation revealing that the original Diebold factory passwords are
still being used on many voting machines." (10/22/06)
http://www.abcnews.go.com/WNT/Technology/story?id=2596705&page=1
26) The voting ritual
LewRockwell.Com
by Butler Shaffer
"November 7th -- like any other date in history -- has born witness to
birth dates and events with both positive and negative connotations.
On the affirmative side, it is the birthday of Albert Camus and Konrad
Lorenz. On the other side of the ledger, it is also the birthday of
Heinrich Himmler, the date of FDR's election to a fourth term as
president, and the date on which Anne Hutchinson was banished from the
Massachusetts Bay Colony as a 'heretic.' This November 7th will also
be the date of the forty-second anniversary of my non-participation in
the voting process. I can assert that I have been 'clean' from the
politicoholic addiction for over four decades. I have no intentions of
ever again sneaking into an enclosed booth -- that serves the same
purpose of hiding one's embarrassing habits as those found in an adult
bookstore -- to conspire with a multitude of others to despoil you of
your liberties or property." (10/24/06)
http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer147.html
13) Officials wanted more searching at WTC
Las Vegas Review Journal
"As the city agency overseeing the removal of the World Trade Center
rubble was wrapping up its work in 2002, several officials handling
the painstaking recovery of human remains warned that things were
moving too fast. They believed that more pieces of the 2,749 dead
could be found, and that the city shouldn't be rushing such an
important task. But they were overruled, two of those officials told
The Associated Press this week." (10/23/06)