Daily Topics - Thursday July 12th, 2012
By shawnt56
Catch The Thom Hartmann Program LIVE at our new time, 3-6pm Eastern!
Hour One: Latest on the battle for democracy in Michigan - Rev. D. Alexander Bullock, Rainbow Push Detroit
Hour Two: Fighting Citizens United in Ohio - Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) / Plus, Battle of the SuperPACs...Will R.I.'s "disclosure act" keep them out? Dan Gainor, Business and Media Institute
Hour Three: Republicans should give up their charter... / Plus, Geeky Science Rocks - When it comes to your brain & altruism...size DOES matter
Comments
#2
If campaign contributions are speech, then someone who talks a little to their neighbor is doing so privately and should not have to disclose it. If someone goes on TV and talks for an hour before the nation, then it is public. Whenever you give money to facilitate speech, then you are speaking. You should not be able to launder your speech through third parties.
#3
Voting Machines: I suspect that optical or electro-mechanical voting machines can be biased in subtle ways. For example, if an optical scanner has separate sensors for each candidate, then if some where dirtier than the others, then the dirtier ones would falsely record more marginally registered votes (not fully filled in bubbles, blue/vs black ink, etc.). The scanners would probably pass the tests that are thrown at them, but the ones with dirty sensors would be at a disadvantage.
I do believe that an electronic voting machine could be properly constructed so that it could be trusted. Sadly, our current design where everything happens in one reprogrammable black box with no audit trail between the logical units is a recipe for disaster. You definitely do not want a general purpose machine used for this purpose.
Thom's Blog Is On the Move
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Olympics in the nude! I take it Thom you haven’t seen the women’s volleyball competition. I'd be for it except for power lifting, the clean and jerk might prove hazardous. Also where would the athletes put their trading pins?