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Maryland Electronic Voting Systems Found Vulnerable
snoitpo writes "My fine state (Maryland) has hired some people I can respect to hack into Diebold voting machines. The Washington Post (read it free for 2 weeks) has the details. From this story and the one on NPR, the state hired a company and set up a test voting precinct and had the group try whatever they could to break into the machines. Most of the attacks would probably be noticed by an even-half-awake poll staff, but some vulnerabilities were exposed. The net seems to be that you could really mess up individual machines, but the grail would be to get to the central collection servers and send a megavote to your favorite candidate. The last paragraph mentions problems that voting machines had in the last election in Virginia; it's interesting to note that those use wireless networking--my jaw has dropped onto my keyboard and I can't comment any further." Other readers sent in two stories in the Baltimore Sun (1, 2), and one in the NY Times.
Oh, I'm a Republican
I got a small schling
I like to bomb niggahs
and make a lot o' bling
I got a bunch o' friends
in high up places
They helps me get dem
government graces.
You think I'm smart
I just know who's who
I couldn't run a fruit stand
without the red white & blue
I fancy myself
A brilliant tactician
But neither me nor m'buddies
Could even pass basic trainin'
See, I'm above all that
A fightin' and shootin'
I just say "Sic em!"
Then run the other direction
Don't need no history
Don't need no schoolin'
I got my ideology
To keep me a shootin'
Liberals! Faggots!
Commies and queers!
Socialist hippies
Full o' pussy tears!
I'll drop some crap
about Jesus the Christ
You'll buy it all
and vote for me twice
'Fact, Jesus is comin'!
Real soon, now!
So we gotta prop up Israel
That ol' sacred cow
Propaganda's m'friend
But I calls it "fact"
Even though I don't read
'Cept for Chick tracts
Facts? No! Don't need em here!
We're conservatives! We work on FEAR!
Don't like what we say?
Well FUCK YOU, bud!
We'll shove it down yer throat
and tell ya it's good!
With all the rampant faggotry on this web site, it feels like England.
to do these machines then they could be trusted
this just in, government stuff sucks. news at eleven.
1/26/2004
"Make no mistake; President Bush is serious about the deficit," Snow said.
"We will continue with my pro-deficit growth agenda until such time when we have to sell Alaska back to Russia for 1 million dollars," Bush told a jubilant republican crowd.
"As the number one country in the world, the United States is most often the target of terrorist attacks. In order to win the war on terrorism, we have already moved large portions of our economy to India, and we are now proceeding with the transfer of military technology as well. But most importantly, we are fighting and winning the battle against civil rights. We will be overtaken by China and India, we will diminish!" Bush said emphatically.
He then reassured the crowd that select individuals, although very few present in the crowd, would in fact benefit very much from his policies, hence making the United States a better and safer country by further burdenning the middle class. Republican voters, often heavily endebted, support the widening gap between the own-lots and the owe-lots.
GOP Press Release Office
1 Troller Park
In the district (of columbia).
Why else do you think Marion Barry kept his office, even after being found in a hotel room with a whore and a bag of crack.
Oh wait, that might be because DC is nothing but a bunch of uneducated crack addicted niggers. (The politicians live outside the district).
Nevermind.
So rev up your "no fair they cheated" engines now, you greasy hippies. It doesn't matter. There's no hope in hell that any of that clown collection of democraps are going to beat Bush anyways.