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E-voting Patches Skew Election?
Whammy666 writes "Wired magazine has an interesting story of how the much-maligned Diebold E-voting machines were allegedly secretely patched before Georgia state's 2002 gubernatorial election. The patches were never certified by independent testing authorities or cleared with Georgia election officials. The election produced an upset which ended in a major upset that defied all polls. A Diebold contractor tells a worrysome tale of how close to a third of the machines were crashing or locking up and how his tests showed the machines producing errors up to 25%. There are no paper audit trails with these systems so it's nearly impossible to check for fraud or malfunction after an actual election."
in fact, bush won more states by popular vote and had more national popular vote support than clinton.
so if you want to complain about the voting system, that's fine - but complaining down party lines is indicative of amateur trolling.
of course, your whole troll^H^H^H^H^H post is a bit of a conspiracy cliche, so that really shouldn't be surprising to anybody.
// "Can't clowns and pirates just -try- to get along?"
the quagmire in Iraq, no found weapons of mass destruction, disturbing leaks about CIA spies,
1) Quagmire? Shouldn't we wait for a year to pass bfore we rush out to use the word Quagmire? Oh and news flash, we won the war, we're rebuilding their cities.
2) Actually lots of WMDs have been found, you just don't want to count _those_ WMDs.
3) Leak? This story is the most idiotic POS the Left has tried so far. Notice how it whimpered away? It had no legs b/c it was shit. She wasn't EVEN a SPY, she was a mid level analyst.
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