Besides ignoring LJ and cutting my socializing even farther back than it normally is, I put myself on a no-politics diet this semester. I'm breaking it right now because several people have said to me recently that the GAO 'proved' that Bush stole the election. All reports seem to ultimately boil down to these folks:

http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2005/1534
http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2005/1529


Unfortunately this is not the case. The GAO report merely says what anybody who has been following the electronic voting issue for awhile already knows: the security holes are so big that one can drive an 18-wheeler through them. Whether or not any vehicle has been driven through them isn't addressed.


More reasonable articles about the GAO report:
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,123186,00.asp
http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/1021-06.htm
http://www.yubanet.com/artman/publish/article_26726.shtml

and the MIT/Caltech voting project reports can be found here in case anybody else wants to follow up on that "november 2004 was the most accurate election ever" quote, as I am going back on my political diet.

Additionally, in case anybody else doesn't know, the Right has been accusing the Left of vote fraud this whole time as well. (This is not the best article I've ever seen on it, but I'm not putting extra time into this...back to the books for me)