I attended the EFF Austin roundtable on eVoting Tuesday night. Stepan summarizes most of what went on and I added a comment. The bottom line is that many state and local governments have rushed to find a solution to the Florida 2000 election debacle and have in the process made some poor decisions. It’s going to take a little time, but these need to be remedied.
Second, there’s a lot of blogging on the arrest of a Cleburne woman for selling sex toys from her home. I share my fellow Texans dismay at this use of law enforcement resources. I’ve been getting more politically active over the past year or so and I’m going to continue that trend. I sent an e-mail to Eddie Rodriguez, my state rep, to see what I can get him to do on both of these issues. I’m a little green on what it takes for one voter to get some action on state and local government, but I’m hoping he or his staff can help point the way. I’ll keep you posted. I think all of the bloggers mentioned and anyone else who’s disturbed by these two developments should contact their reps as well. With all this blogging, it shouldn’t be too hard to get together a large enough number of people to force changes on both of these issues. I know the second one is kind of minor, but I gotta start somewhere.