7917 ballots cast, including 3836 absentee. That’s 48.5% of the votes cast via absentee!
Mayor
Jim Cason 3056
Tom Korge 2087
Don Slesnick 2721
Group 4
Alvarez 485
Holmes 100
Martin 309
Quesada 3780
Rosenblatt 1775
Sanabria 1240
Group5
Kerdyk 5758
Naomon 1689
Source: Coral Gables TV live broadcast.
OK, back to my normal blogging starting tomorrow.
Gables Home Page has the early results from 2,818 absentee ballots, which will be a significant fraction of the total ballots cast (“By 3 p.m. more than 3,000 residents had cast ballots, a little over 10 percent of the city’s 29,679 registered voters.”).
The absentee voters — thought by many to be significantly skewed to an older and more Hispanic vote — went Cason 40%, Slesnick 37%, and Korge only 23%. In Group 4, Quesada was crushing with 53%. Both Rosenblatt and Sanabria were far behind with 18% and 17%.
So presumably this means Quesada wins, because I think he’ll do well on the in-person vote too. Whether it means Cason wins is much harder to say without knowing how much of an absentee effort Slesnick made, and how different the in-person vote is from the absentee. Arguably, there might be more Slesnick voters turning up in person, maybe enough to turn the tide. The 3% gap between them, after all, is only 85 votes, not enough to rest comfortably on.
Polls closed over an hour ago. Where online do they report the results? There’s nothing evident at the Miami-Dade election results page, nor on the City of Coral Gables web page.
Update: I just read here that there were actually 4,683 absentee votes as of Monday, which would mean the numbers above are only partial even for the absentees. If correct, that also means that there could well be more absentee voters than in-person voters, in which case maybe these numbers will hold up after all?
Slight Paranoia has the story. It seems Dropbox tries to avoid storing duplicate files, and thus check (probably via a hash comparison) to see if any OTHER user has uploaded the same file. And there’s the rub:
As Ashkan Soltani was able to test in just a few minutes, it is possible to determine if any given file is already stored by one or more Dropbox users, simply by observing the amount of data transferred between your own computer and Dropbox’s servers. If the file isn’t already stored by Dropbox, the entire file will be uploaded. If Dropbox has the file already, just a few kb of communication will occur.
While this doesn’t tell you which other users have uploaded this file, presumably Dropbox can figure it out. I doubt they’d do it if asked by a random user, but when presented with a court order, they could be forced to.
What this means, is that from the comfort of their desks, law enforcement agencies or copyright trolls can upload contraband files to Dropbox, watch the amount of bandwidth consumed, and then obtain a court order if the amount of data transferred is smaller than the size of the file.
Last year, the New York Attorney General announced that Facebook, MySpace and IsoHunt had agreed to start comparing every image uploaded by a user to an AG supplied database of more than 8000 hashes of child pornography. It is easy to imagine a similar database of hashes for pirated movies and songs, ebooks stripped of DRM, or leaked US government diplomatic cables.
via slight paranoia: How Dropbox sacrifices user privacy for cost savings.
Ungood. Not actually something that I think has a large chance of impacting my life, but it’s bracing to discover that dropbox has easy access to cleartext of my files and has such a large security hole. I was misled by their description of how they encrypted things. The description is being corrected as a result of this discovery, but I’d rather they fixed the problem thank you very much.
It was quiet at the polling station at 3:30, so it was quick.
I asked the poll workers if it had been busy today. No, one said, not busy but steady.
Update: Record Gables absentees says Ladra. (Presumably this helps Cason and either Quesada or Sanabria?)
On Sunday, the Miami Herald printed a list of Coral Gables polling places. Some of them were correct. They’ve now put out a new, improved, and corrected list.
Polls are open 7am-7pm.
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The candidate running for Coral Gables Commission Group 4 is named, according to his filing statement, Frank C. Quesada. His office is at 355 Alhambra Circle, Suite 801, Coral Gables, Florida 33134. There is no misconduct on his record.
That would seem to make him an entirely different person from the Coral Gables lawyer by the name of G. Frank Quesada who was the subject of a public reprimand by the Florida Supreme Court in 2009 for his actions in connection with a real estate deal. His office is at 1313 Ponce De Leon Blvd # 200, Coral Gables, FL 33134.
Beware anyone trying to suggest otherwise in, say, an unsigned email.
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