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Name :   Warren Smith
Organization :   N/A
Post Date :   9/30/2005

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Section :  6.7
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Comment :  SECTION 6.7: WIRELESS:  
Imagine a law intended to protect us from nuclear weapons that read "it  
is perfectly ok for you to own a nuclear weapon and keep in in your house,  
although we  
look down upon that practice. All we ask (as a purely voluntary  
guideline,  
not required by law) is this: if you do choose to own a nuclear weapon,  
then you must sign a piece of paper saying you agree only to use it in the  
following authorized ways."  

Well that is precisely what this ludicrous section does. It essentially  
says to possibly-corrupt voting machine manufacturers  
(and let me note: the major US voting machine  
companies contain known convicted criminals - bribery, theft, fraud,  
drug trafficking -  
in high management positions, and quite possibly employees who have  
been bribed  
by foreign intelligence agencies - in fact it is wholy legal for those  
employees or even owners to literally BE foreign nationals who ADMIT  
to also being employees of foreign intelligence agencies... and  
indeed US voting machine companies HAVE been owned by  
rich foreigners from non-democratic countries, who almost certainly were  

closely linked to that country's rulers):  
Hey! It is perfectly ok if you put wireless communications  
devices in your voting machines which would allow anybody within a mile  
to reprogram or control those machines to do whatever he wants - PROVIDED  
you sign a  
piece of paper (e.g. see 6.7.2.5 & 6.7.5.2 for typical laughably  
unenforceable examples - actually checking  
to see if these criteria are satisfied is well known to be a  
Turing-undecidable problem) saying "I certify my wireless interfaces will  
not be used in those bad ways."