Who Decides … You or the Machine?
By Lee Nichols, 1:14PM, Thu. Nov. 2, 2006
I went to a press conference this morning by VoteRescue, an activist group dedicated to ridding our nation of electronic voting machines and going back to paper ballots. More on that press conference later, but in the meantime, keep the 8pm time slot open tonight (Thursday, Nov. 2) so you can watch the documentary Hacking Democracy on HBO. I'm told that if you aren't alarmed by computer voting yet, you will be after you view it (read this preview in today's Salon.com). In fact, if you head down to the Fox and Hound Tavern at 401 Guadalupe, you can watch it with the VoteRescue folks. They'll meet at 7pm for a training session on video documentation of irregularities in this year's election (bring your video camera if you're interested), and then watch Hacking at 8pm.
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