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The Media

Submission + - R.I.P. Linux Advocate and Writer Joe Barr 1

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Roblimo
Roblimo writes: "Our colleague Joe Barr sometimes described himself as a doddering old geek. Many knew him as a Linux evangelist; others knew him from his ham radio activities. And those of us who worked with Joe knew him in all of his sometime irascible, often funny moods. Joe was always one of our favorite people, and we are devastated to report that he died at home, unexpectedly, last night. Joe Barr was a reporter and editor for Linux.com, which is owned by the same company that owns Slashdot."
The Courts

Submission + - Florida County Must Do 'Paperless' Vote Recount

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Roblimo
Roblimo writes: "Florida's 13th Congressional District race was won, at first glance, by Republican Vern Buchanan by 368 votes out of 76,549 votes cast for both candidates combined. Florida law requires a recount if the winner's margin is less than 1%, but now comes the big problem: Sarasota County, the heart of this Congressional District, uses ES&S paperless touch-screen voting machines, so there is no way to do a real, ballot-by-ballot recount even though there are good reasons to suspect that voting machine irregularites may have played a part in Buchanan's apparent victory. From the article: 'The results were loaded with controversy as nearly 13 percent of all ballots cast in Sarasota didn't include a choice for Congress. That difference, and scattered reports of difficulty finding the race on Sarasota's touchscreen ballots, raised concerns about under votes in the race.' An amusing side-note to this controversy is that in this same election Sarasota County voters seem to have passed a referendum requiring recountable paper ballots in the future."

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