The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by Sten Thaning:

Another problem with the Economist map: it doesn't seem to check whether you actually happen to be in the country you claim. I had no problem voting as a 83 year old female from Libya.

It is actually worse than that -- it doesn't even seem to check IP addresses, just users, for purposes of preventing multiple votes. I could spend a couple of hours registring a new user for every single country in the world, if I wanted to, say, give McCain some much-needed help in the poll.

Terry at 298: Thank you for *that* mental picture. I was under the impression that beards were the sort of thing you only find on dwarven females.

(Yes, I know.)

I know that story!
Katherine Maclean: The Snowball Effect. Printed in 1952, according to Locus.

I know that story!
Katherine Maclean: The Snowball Effect. Printed in 1952, according to Locus.

Would it work to create one receipt for each party/candidate, but print the actual voting receipt first? As the voter would know which piece of paper he got first, he can verify the vote, but since the papers are identical there is no way to prove it to someone else.

For electronic voting boots, is there anything stopping the voter from taking a picture of the screen? I'm not very clear on exactly how these machines work...

CD, #46: Probably someone heard that Mohammed is the most common name given to boys in the city of Malmö, and then the factoid mutated. Cite in Swedish only, sorry. (Didn't Fox or someone similar make a documentary about the Horrible Problem Malmö has with Those People, a couple of years ago?)

In 2004, "most common" meant "36 boys". Malmö might be the 3rd largest city in Sweden, but it is not that big.

Well, the grape-eating moose in the particles does seem to have lost some weight.

Comment statistics for Sten Thaning on the Making Light blog

Total: 7 comments. View all these comments on a single page.