JaBbA's Hut

I'm about half way through Brave New Ballot, the new book about electronic voting by Avi Rubin. Since I've been following the Diebold case since Bev Harris first reported problems with the machines, none of the facts presented are any surprise to me. However, the book is well written, and fair to a fault, as appropriate for a serious academic. I'd recommend it to anyone interested in why the Voter Verified Paper Trails are so important to saving American Democracy. I'll have more as I finish the book.

Also, I finally got the info about helping with the election itself. I was planning on volunteering but, as it turns out, since I'm a computer expert the Cuyahoga County BOE will pay me $250 to be a technical person helping with the vote. So, like Avi Rubin, I'll be working at the polls on election day. I'll be on the lookout for issues that could allow wholesale vote fraud, not that I can fix them, mind you. But the first step is to be sure that someone is watching.