Election memos now hosted by 30 schools

[Changenow]

BY MATTHEW FITTING


In the past week, computer users at 30 other colleges and universities have broken the law by possessing more than 13,000 potentially damaging memos written by employees of a national voting machine corporation, all following the initial example set by a student at Swarthmore.


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(The article goes on with an account of Swarthmore’s compliance with Diebolds Cease and Desist order. The whole article is well worth reading. Now that young students are involved the hubris of youth may take the issue over the top.)

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Even so, White said, in the past week, when it became known that the college user and Why War’s Web site carried the memos, more than 20,000 to 30,000 users worldwide have downloaded the entire archive of communication between Diebold employees. That amounts digitally to more than 11 megabytes. Users at 30 other schools, by downloading the memos, have now raised the risk for their institutions of facing a similar order, and four already have.

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Though Gross said the college was unwilling to engage in an act of civil disobedience and allow the memos on its server, White said there were other options. One possibility would include forming an ad hoc committee to investigate the potential educational value of the memos, which would involve students and faculty members reading all of the more than 13,000 documents.

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http://phoenix.swarthmore.edu/2003-10-30/news/13404

[Brucey]

1. Tres cool.

And I thought all young people loved chimpy.

[ret5hd]

3. Young people need something to rebel against...

if it is their parents liberalness they are rebelling against...

but if it is a despotic corporo-gov't...

If the dem party can cultivate and direct the rebellious urges inherent in youth, we will win. If we can make it an act of rebellion to vote, we will win.

But how todo that? I dont know, not even the viet-nam war made a majority of the '60s youth bother to vote.

[TacticalPeek]

5. For those who do love aWol,

they need only to imagine George Soros or Ted Turner buying up all the voting machine companies in a fit of capitalist glee, or conspicuous consumption.

:)

[1songbird]

2. I must confess to checking out the why-war website

Very interesting stuff.

[Military Brat]

4. Finally, some good news

And the GOP (Grand Oligarchy Party) will blame it on those liberal educational institutions. They would prefer, of course, that everyone remain as ignorant as the diehard conservatives are.