Halloween in Boston was great this year. Fallen leaves were all crunchy on the street, yet the weather was fabulous: clear and warm.
I was invited to a party at the home of a fellow law student so I had an excuse to get dressed up. I had been hemming and hawing about what to be, with neither the bandwidth nor budget to build or buy any sort of elaborate costume. Then I saw this Tom Tomorrow cartoon and decided that dressing up as a Diebold touch screen voting system was the scariest thing I could possibly be.
Front reads: (on hat) DIEBOLD - TOUCH SCREEN VOTING - NO PAPER TRAIL - TECHNICAL GLITCHES
Back reads: (on hat) Cease and desist all criticism - NO SECURITY - THE FUTURE OF OUR DEMOCRACY... SCARED YET? - MANUFACTURERS ARDENT POLITICAL PARTISANS
It wasn't a particularly well-made costume, but then again, neither are the voting systems...
Edit 11/3: Pictures posted. And the story (about Diebold, not my Halloween costume) was picked up in the New York Times.
Edit 11/4: I'm famous! Tom Tomorrow linked to me from his site.
Comments (1)
pictures?
who won your election and what did they win?
Posted by jon | November 1, 2003 6:34 AM
Posted on November 1, 2003 06:34