Michael B. Duff

“As you can tell from these, old-fashioned mechanical or resonating hearing aids were not necessarily long and rounded," said Skroska. "Short, compact rectangular forms were not unusual."

CAVUTO: If you're elected tonight what's the first thing you want to do?
PAUL: Repeal the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Just kidding!
But seriously, it looks like Rand Paul has survived stepping in Maddow's bear trap. Avoiding the media, is there any problem it can't solve?

How much money would be available to take care of the health care for 60 million people if $1 trillion in funds were dedicated to them? How about $16,667 per person. That means for a poor family of 4, the federal government would have almost $67,000 per year to help out with health care expenses. For a poor family of 8, there would be $133,000 of funds. Even with the world’s least efficient health care system, that is far beyond the level of support that we would need to provide world class care to all of the poor and infirm.

The printed page contains both a plain text record and a simple barcode of the voter's selections. This page is the official ballot that is then fed through a scanner into a locked ballot box so that all originals are saved in case of the need for a recount or audit. The electronic record from the DRE is compared with the barcode scanner record and in case of any discrepancy the paper ballots are used to determine the official vote, not the electronic record. The voter has the ability to proofread the ballot before it is placed into the scanner/lockbox and have it voided if there is any error, just as has always been possible with existing manual voting systems.

I try to post this every election day.

OUCH

If you believe, as I do, that the next two years in Washington are going to be a debate over the efficacy of Keynesian economics, well, this hilarious send-up of righteous, confused Stewart-Colbert rallygoers doesn't inspire much hope–but it is hilarious

Republicans are on probation. This is a more comforting way of dealing with the election. Voters aren't endorsing Republican ideas and they haven't given them a mandate. They've just decided to send a message to Washington, and they expect more from Republicans than they do from Democrats now. This is partly true. There is little evidence that Republican policies are popular. But a majority of the electorate, itself a plurality–about 40 percent of those eligible to vote–supports the Republican ideas that animate those policies. When Democratic ideas don't seem to be living up to expectations, Republican ideas will be popular. And vice verse.

Lubbock County voting machine types.

“We are still a decade away from being sure that Internet voting is secure and not subject to manipulation,” said Susan Dzieduszycka-Suinat, president of the Overseas Vote Foundation, which helps servicemen and Americans living abroad to vote in elections using the Internet. Within 36 hours, a team of University of Michigan computer students and teachers had taken it over. They changed votes, "elected" a Star wars robot chairman of the City Council, and installed the school’s fight song, “Hail to the Victors,” which would play 15 seconds after someone voted.

University of Michigan Prof. Alex Halderman has now released some details about his successful attack on the District of Columbia's proposed Internet voting system which has been under test for the last week. (See http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/jhalderm/hacking-dc-internet-voting-pilot ) It is now clear that Halderman and his team were able to completely subvert the entire DC Internet voting system remotely, gaining complete control over it and substituting fake votes of their choice for the votes that were actually cast by the test voters. What is worse, they did so without the officials even noticing for several days.