November 2004

Note – I’m going to tag everything election-related as a MARGIN OF ERROR post in the next few days. The figures, anyway. Fox News (eh?) give Kerry 49%, Bush 44% in Florida. If I’m not very much mistaken that’s actually outside the Margin. Yes, MOE=+-3.7%. (Link) Fox’s final national has Kerry +2 and +5 among…

E-vote at Risk – Computerworld As I’m sure you’re all aware, electronic voting systems present us with complicated and desperately important technological and political challenges. But frankly, what’s the point of arguing about verification, paper trails, electronic audit trails, public key encryption and the like when “”Maryland refuses to put a firewall on servers that…

These are the last “likely voter” trackers…. Bush Kerry Zogby 48 47 Monday TIPP 47 42 Sunday Rasmussen 48.1 47.1 Sunday WaPo 48 48 Sunday Fox 46 47 Sunday And these are the last national polls with previous figures in (brackets): Bush Kerry Pew 48(47) 45(47) NBC/WSJ 48(48) 47(48) CBS/NY Times 49(47) 46(45) Gallup 49(51)…

If you are reading this and you can vote in the US election, and you have yet to make up your mind, please read this. George W. Bush must go. I will avoid taking a position on the culture war issues, and simply concentrate on performance. Both as a domestic politician and as Commander in…