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E-Voting Glitch: 19,000 Voters, 144,000 Votes
nick_davison writes "The Indianapolis Star is reporting the latest case of 'interesting' E-voting results. Tuesday's Boone County election, using MicroVote software returned 144,000 votes from 19,000 registered voters. After much panicking and tracking down the bug, the actual number of votes turned out as 5,352. With yet another mistake, does anyone still trust closed-source electronic voting?"
Have you tried MacroVote?
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...That when they 'fixed' the problem, they did it right. Since they probably didn't want the local county's IT guy to look at the source and fix the problem, there's no guarantee they got it right this time, either.
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"If anyone needs me, I'm in the angry dome."
I'm sure there're thousands of invalid votes with ticks on the ballot instead of X's.
"I probably just put a decimal point in the wrong spot. I always forget some mundane detail..." lol
Is this how Bush was elected?
Here it is:
#include <stdlib.h>
int main()
{
printf( "%i\n", rand() );
return(0);
}
This would be a great machine, Boss Daly could get back into office without the help of his current constituents... the graveyard vote.
Depending on your world outlook , it very well could be.
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If you subscribe to the notion that humanities job is to discover/understand everything it can about our unvirse/life then opensource very well could be the answer to life it self . Or at least part of the solution
The new Indianapolis Mayor, Richard Daley Jr., said there is nothing to be concerned about. Indiana Governor Martha Daley called to congratulate him on his victory.
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What is this software, a new module for Sim-Chicago?
MicroVote software returned 144,000 votes from 19,000 registered voters.
This is the perfect solution for democrats in the upcoming presidential election.
an ill wind that blows no good
I'm just waiting for the first set of votes to come back with either Deep Blue or HAL in the number one spot.
Sure MicroVote will say that it wasn't their fault. 10 trillion voters obviously wanted a computer run US.
Lets be honest even their website looks like 8th rate programming.
VENI, VIDI, VICI, DIXI
Millions of eyes makes a bug fucking scary!!!
Diebold My fave: Be Dildo
MicroVoteMy other Fave: Evict Room
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The Amount_paid variable was used where it should have been Vote_Count...
The US has turned into a nation full of people with a) no patience and b) a very short attention span. We want what we want, and we want it now!
... Pat Buchanan for President!! no wait....
And what we want is *punch*
The number 144000 has a great significance in many religions/beliefs.
Google on 144000
Personally I think that Judgement Day is nigh and that the AntiChrist will use an evoting machine to gain control of the world.
Or perhaps not.
When you're done voting, you give your ballot with sleeve to the attendant, and you watch (you have to watch, they make you stay) as it goes into something resembling a giant laser printer
Maybe it was just me, but I thought it looked more like a gigantic shredder.
You can accomplish anything you set your mind to. The impossible just takes a little longer.
Sir I take particular offense to your statement
b) a very short attention span.
I am very well capable of keeping my attention fixated on a point that is well worth my....Hey! Another article on Microsoft doing something bad!
Sig it.
Ah, but in the US, do they really all show up to vote? For a national election??
He said votes, not voters...
It's official. Most of you are morons.
So an IT director and a number of flunkies have rewritten the results of an election.
That's disgusting! Everybody knows that rewriting the results of an election is a job for the courts!
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...to seeing Bush re-elected with a 2 billion vote majority.
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How do the good people of Boone County know that the new answer is correct?
Maybe they took a vote.