response 590 of 594:

Sep 23 20:43 UTC 2003

if (today == ELECTION_DAY) {
        mode = REPUBLICAN_UPSET;        
}  else {
        mode = HONEST;  
}

response 592 of 594:

Sep 24 00:56 UTC 2003

http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/09/23/bev_harris/index.html is 
another interesting article about this.  It talks about the general 
problems with electronic voting machines, and about a specific problem 
with Diebold machines that allows the results to be easily altered with 
no audit trail.  (Diebold was made aware of this problem and responded, 
essentially, that it was a feature, not a bug.)  It also points out 
hints of touch screen vote fraud in Georgia and King County, Washington. 
 Finally, it notes that in a 2001 MIT/Caltech study the only voting 
system that had a worse error rate than punch cards was...touch screens.

response 594 of 594:

Sep 24 04:06 UTC 2003

Oh, relax, richard.

IBB I've not yet registered Sol II and now it has expired.  (Sol II is a Palm
application that computes sunrise, sunset, BMAT, BMNT, BMCT, EECT, EENT, EEAT,
moonrise and moonset.  "BMAT" is "Beginning of Morning Astronomical
Twilight.")