This week's voter discussions, focusing on the integrity of election audit trails, favored Karl Auerbach's query to add a solid, paper audit trail to electronic voting machines. However, when it came time to proof the pudding, straw poll voters made newcomer Frank Paynter the Sufficiency Party Presidential candidate frontrunner. Dining room conversations about his weblog, especially October 18 - A Red Letter Day and a previous post (where the rivers of our vision flow into one another), suggest Paynter captured votes from former enthusiastic supporters of Dennis Kucinich. Kucinich polled 0% in last night's poll.
The latest results:
(1) Frank Paynter(2) Karl Auerbach(3) David S. Isenberg(4) David Weinberger (5) Philip Greenspun
Snip from Jay Rosen's What's Conservative about the Weblog Form?:
9.) The weblog is continuous—not a revolutionary break—with five hundred years of print culture. It is the printed page, modernized, interconnected, made two-way, but still… “powered by movable type.”
