Trouble ahead

The Washington Post reports that conditions are ripe for a Florida 2000-type debacle in November, now that 80 percent of voters will use electronic voting machines, and a third
of all precincts are using the technology for the first time.

See here for the particulars on the Diebold AccuVote-TS, and here for a video on how some Princeton researchers hacked it to expose its vulnerability.

Lede of the Day…

… comes, as usual, courtesy of my friend, Lisa, in Ft. Lauderdale:

Friday, Sept. 15 (AP) — A Nigerian murder suspect accused of killing
his brother with an axe told police investigators he actually
attacked a goat, which was only later magically transformed into his
sibling’s corpse, officials said Thursday.

The man, whose name wasn’t released, offered police his explanation
after his arrest on Tuesday in the death of his brother the previous
day at Isseluku village in southern Nigeria.

“He said that the goats were on his farm and he tried to chase them
away. When one wouldn’t move, he attacked it with an axe. He said it
then turned into his brother,” Police Commissioner Udom Ekpoudom told
the Associated Press.

Murder suspects in Nigeria, where many people believe in black magic,
sometimes claim spirits tricked them into killing. In 2001, eight
people were burned to death after one person in their group was
accused of making a bystander’s penis magically disappear.