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Indecision 2002
The most common story submission about the U.S. elections held today seems to be that the consortium which typically conducts and reports exit polls has encountered technical difficulties. If only they'd had an open beta program... There have also been a number of stories highlighting problems with new electronic voting machines, a topic Slashdot has hit several times in the past. CNN, the NY Times, and essentially every other U.S. news outfit are following the election results as best they can.
On MSNBC, asked about Jeb Bush running for President: "I think he could. Bush has attractive daughters, too... I think we could have Bush's as President for the whole 21st century."
It would've passed, but a lot of the supporters forgot to vote.
. . . Dewey really didn't defeat Truman.
Vote for Bill Gates! He'll buy Iraq to end this madness!
I'm the Devil the Windows users warned you about.
1) Ballotscape creates the most innovative and foolproof voting software.
2) Ballotscape's software becomes installed on voting machines nationwide.
3) Microsoft releases "innovative" MS-Vote for free.
4) Microsoft embeds MS-Vote into Windows.
5) Microsoft gives away Dell voting machines to the States as a condition for overcharging for licenses.
6) Gates/Dell presidential ticket mysteriously captures 90% of the popular vote (Jobs/Feiss ticket only receives 5%).
If Slashdot did a good job of publishing information on who to vote into/out-of office (based on geek issues), then they wouldn't be able to post stories bitching about how much proposed bill yadda-yadda-yadda sucks for geeks. And then we wouldn't be able to read the dozens of responses posted bitching about slashdot not doing anything to harness their readership in politically.
I mean what fun would that be?
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What are you, some sort of liberal commie terrorist? If you don't trust good clean red-blooded Christian Americans, you can just go back to whatever godless pinko arab rock you crawled out from under. We don't want your kind here.
George had it right - "You're either for us or against us." There ain't no middle ground and there ain't no room for your leftist propaganda. Spout your hateful divisive ideas somewhere else, this is America. This is the NEW America, strong and proud. Either you support our duly-elected kick-ass President George Bush 100% or you don't deserve to call yourself an American. So get with the program or get off our turf. If you disagree with how the President is running things, you're against freedom and American values and will be dealt with as such.
Goddamit, Slashdot's going straight to hell with all these lumatics.
Jim "Figure4" Burke
One of them was if we should ban cockfighting or not.
Be careful: if you vote "Ban it!" then, depending on the way the bill is worded, Nintendo may be banned from selling its animal combat simulation products in your state. Yeah, sure, Nintendo's official line is that it's based on the Japanese sport of beetlefighting, but American kids know what really happens, especially in a Pidgeot vs. Fearow match.
Will I retire or break 10K?
Yeah, then we'd get some of those anti-corporate republican types in there. That'll show 'em.
Gawd.
microsoftword.mp3 - it doesn't care that they're not words...
This push to legalize marijuana is being secretly funded by Frito-Lay and Hostess.
They should use secure open source code
They can borrow the code for the /. poll
Cowboy Neal for President!
134340: I am not a number. I am a free planet!
Most countries in Europe (and, I assume, the World), have been successfully experimenting with a revolutionary voting method:
1. Voters are given a piece of "paper". On this "paper" are the names of the candidates or parties, followed the respective picture or symbol, followed by an empty square.
2. Using a device known as "pen", the voters proceed to make a "cross" (a highly optimised mark, consisting of two straight lines) inside the "square" that corresponds to the person or party they wish to vote for.
3. The voters then fold this paper two or three times and insert it in a large "box" (a device for storing pieces of paper).
4. Once voting is over, advanced counting machines known as "people" (usually groups of volunteers, with one or two official representatives) take the pieces of paper out of the box and look at the marks made with the pens. They write down how many "votes" there were for each candidate. This process typically takes less than six hours, including one recount.
5. (This part will sound obvious to most people familiar with democracy, but americans may find it surprising) The candidate with the most votes wins.
It's a relatively inexpensive and ecological process, since the paper can be recycled. But, most of all, it works.
RMN
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89% of voters polled said they supported legalizing Marijuana.
34% of supporters forgot to vote
13% supported legalization, but picked the wrong option
22% of supporters were unable to make it from the couch to the voting booth, collapsing at differing points between.
18% of supporters were too unmotivated to leave the house
7% were unable to complete the ballot due to incredibly poor depth perception
6% entered the voting booth, but forgot why they were there and thought they were in the shower
13% of those who thought they were in the shower began masturbating
-- "Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."