07:30 PM : Protecting Political Rights in the Digital Age Talk @ Reed

Politico Flyered by Rob W.

Do you vote? There are many around the world dieing to do so. The lesser of evils dilemma plagues us here sometimes but no one would argue that vote counting should not be transparent and accurate. But with computers counting the vote, how can that be guaranteed. This is one of my issues and an area in which I have made original contributions.

Tonight "Does Not Compute: Protecting Political Rights in the Digital Age" is a talk by Nelson Pavlosky. You might not recognize the name, but perhaps you have heard of the internal memos from Diebold exposing shoddy and insecure software in their touch screen voting machines including those used in Florida in the 2000 presidential election (hello Iraq!!). One of those machines gave Al "Global Warming" Gore a negative 16,022 votes. Bush won the election with a margin of 537 votes. Diebold tried to prevent Internet Service Providers from hosting websites and blogs with the memos under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Pavlosky sued Diebold for misusing the Act to censor publication of the memos and won! He speaks at the Reed Psych Building Room 105 7:30PM free