July 13 is Computer Ate My Vote day.

Verified Voting, a nonprofit devoted to fighting paperless electronic voting machines, is holding a national day of "Computer Ate My Vote" protest on July 13. They're asking sites to display a badge and help fight the good fight. See the page below for info on rallies and events in your state.

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[Boing Boing]

9:36:27 AM    

"Will George's overweening pride go before the fall, or will he take the entire country down with him?"

overweening oh-vur-WEE-ning, adjective:
1. Overbearing; arrogant; presumptuous.
2. Excessive; immoderate; exaggerated.

9:11:16 AM    

Sounds like a hell of a trip!

I'd be a bit concerned about all those parachutes and airbags, tho'. Not to mention the pilot.

Feeney describes himself as being an "entrepreneur and inventor all of my life" who spent "part of a year" at the University of Toronto but has no formal training as an engineer.

Unlike Melvill, a veteran test pilot with 7,000 hours' flight time in 138 different aircraft, Feeney's a relative novice to flying. He said he's put in about 25 hours flying light planes.

But Feeney said experience in planes isn't as important as it might seem. He pointed out he's been doing intensive simulator training at the Defence and Civil Institute of Environmental Medicine in Toronto. He said the ground training is actually more relevant than conventional flight time.

"A ballistic rocket does not fly like an aircraft," he said. "The way that you fly is completely different."

Yeah, it drops like a rock.

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And of course the part of the report that deals with that won't come out until AFTER the election. I swear, the election can't come soon enough.

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