Proud of myself

I got my e-mail read on the radio (Christine Craft on KGO just now). She was doing a show on voter fraud, election fraud, and voting machines. I sent in the following e-mail:

Subject: Voting machines one-liner

Hi Christine,

I've heard that the voting machines use anti-virus software.
This is a problem. A voting machine should never be connected
to the open internet. Learning your voting machine uses
anti-virus software is like walking into your 2nd grade
daughter's parent-teacher conference and hearing the teacher
tell you that he's very safe; he always wears a condom while
teaching.

If the machine is properly designed, you just shouldn't need
to do that.

References: News article about the problem:
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/08/21/voting_machines.html

Where I first hear the joke:
http://xkcd.com/463/

She read the first paragraph verbatim and then the guest commented extensively on the details.

:-)

Happy Beth! This is another issue that I care about deeply.
--Beth in Sunnyvale