[Tfug] Discussion

[keith smith]

Hi Jim,

How many people are doing the tech site of things when it comes to voting?

How would one learn to do what you do?

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Keith Smith

--- On Thu, 4/19/12, Jim March <1.jim.march at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Jim March <1.jim.march at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Tfug] Discussion
To: "Tucson Free Unix Group" <tfug at tfug.org>
Date: Thursday, April 19, 2012, 5:20 PM

Thank you Paul.
Let me add one thing: with the advent of electronic voting while retaining existing law giving outside people or parties the ability to monitor the counting of the vote, it's really vital to get...well, "geeks" interested in election observation.

We are absolutely needed, just like lawyers were far more vital than most other folks during the civil rights movement.  Look, if you walked up to Dr. King in, say, 1961 and said you wanted to help, he'd say "cool" (or the like).  Then tell him you had a law degree and you'd see him jump up and down all excited.

Well that's exactly where we are now, except it's not lawyers that are the most vital anymore.
It's people who can take apart a system event log and cross-reference it with an application log.

I don't know how to make it more clear...
Jim

On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 3:23 PM, Paul Steinbach <MIS at samlevitz.com> wrote:

This thread reminds me of the power of a few well-informed people to create and disperse knowledge through respectful intellectual discourse.  To me this kind of disagreement is thoroughly American.  Though I am not normally a fan of politics, this has been very interesting.




Paul Steinbach



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