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Last week something happened. Stephen Spoonamore spoke in the question of the 2004 Ohio ballot tabulation. I'd hoped to get a chance to meet him, but my week was hijacked by post-ICANN work, pre-IETF work, and goD forbid, work-work. Oh! And a birthday!! Kezzie is 6!!! Next week is IETF, so other than secret meetings of the DNS cabal or the arabic script literacy posse, and a meeting I set up this week, next week is toast. Still, what happened is significant. Here are the technorati links to blogs that mention Stephen Spoonamore, including Susie at Suburban Guerrilla, which caught my eye, and TChris at TalkLeft, where Jerelyn's been on Diebold from the beginning.

The story has legs, and BradBlog is doing the leg work the journamalists are only too happy to miss. The kids and I walked past the OSU J-School today on an errand at the Near East and African department offices, by way of the Math Dept., and I actually felt pity for the smug, self-contained children who elect to attend the J-School. Kids for whom the troll in Spoonamore's allegorical box always gives the correct ballot tabulation, and ponies too.

If you want to start reading the case material, start here at the Moritz election law site with King Lincoln Bronzwell v. Blackwell. I am.

Of course, something happened this week too. It may be an interesting weekend, and I'll be at the IETF at the dnsops wg meeting, though not the dnsext wg meeting, and that should be about as educational as anywhere else I could be.

File under: Election Law Litigation