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Super Tuesday Not So Super For Electronic Voting
October_30th writes "It's Super Tuesday in 10 states (including California, New York and Ohio) and various reports are coming in that the equipment built by Diebold and various other manufacturers is proving more troublesome than previously anticipated."
George W. Bush won the democratic primary in 7 of the 10 states
Early returns show Dennis Kucinich winning every state, with Al Sharpton a close second in all ten...
For all the voters who will be voting for the fist
I have to tell you, I voted for the fist once and I still regret it.
I wonder when they will be buying their SCO license.
No need to worry, these problems should go away by the election in November. The machines just got confused while trying to add extra Republican votes since there's no Republicans running in the Democratic primary.
During the general election, this shouldn't be a problem.
# ssh diebold.machines.gov
bush@diebold.machines.gov's password:
# gcc -o misunderestimated misunderestimated.c
#
# echo "Is our children learning?"
MoFscker
I voted today in California and had no problem with the electronic voting machine. Then again, my presence on this site might explain that.
"all of Maryland's machines had two identical locks, which could be opened by any one of 32,000 keys or be easily picked."
Diebold's implementation of open source voting machines, no doubt.
It is being reported that the largest problem was that Diebold, in a last minute decision, used the Howard Dean yell as a sound bit that indicated a selection had been made.
/humor
Several senior citizens were scared by the sounds and ended up casting votes in error for Al Sharpton. Al's name was horizontally accross from Kerry so expect a repeat of the Gore/Buchannan butterfly issue from Florida.
The rest of the machines required the super secret three finger salute (CTRL+ALT+DEL) to log on.
Save a Life. Donate Blood. Please.
Yes. Yes we are.
And it was good.
So what's NEW? How is this NEWS?
See that glow growing brighter off on the horizon? That's the cataclysm, it's coming this way.
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...every computer professional I know thinks this is a lousy idea.
This is because real computer professionals know enough about complexity and reliability in commercial software to have to really work hard to not shit their pants when thinking about electronic voting machines. The people who actually program electronic voting machines are not professionals, otherwise they would have quit their jobs due to the ethical problems. Instead, the programmers who make these voting machines are whores, and, apparently, the people who buy these machines want to get fucked real hard.
Vote in November. You won't regret it.
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~Berj
That guy shooting pictures of unlocked Diebolds: Isn't he violating the DMCA?
Hello kids, lets sing a song.
... (clicked on no)
... (clicked on no)
... (page protection fault)"
"If your happy with the current-administration, click on yes!
If your confident in Diebolds ability-to-provide-secure-voting-solutions, click on yes!
If your happy and you know it and you really want to show it, if your happy and you know it, click on yes
Lets try another!
"Bar bar black sheep have you cast your vote?
No sir, no sir, i was struck of the electoral role by a republican outsourced data-processing company called Diebold"
Well done! now lets try some rhymes!
"Humpty dumpty sat on the wall,
humpty dumpty found a software flaw.
But all the election officials' horses and all the election officials' men,
couldnt save humpty from a Diebold law-suit under the DMCA"
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And then we'll vote him back in just to piss the Europeans off. :P
common sense: noun
What those who are ignorant of the subject matter think; usually wrong.
A quick search for "Saddam Bush" will return 2,530,000 hits. The first site on the list suggests that they were doing business together. What were you trying to illustrate again? Did you forget to take your medicine?
Life in Orange County
Actually, 37% of the non-voters are too cynical to bitch, feeling that their bitching would not be listened to and would simply amount to a waste of time. It's important to motivate these people and tell them that their bitching really counts, and that if they just clam up then they'll have squandered their only rights in a democratic society. (Other than actually voting.)
- First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then ???, then profit.
It's best not to argue with a fool... you'll have to reduce yourself to their level, and then they'll beat you with experience.
"Freedom means freedom for everybody" -- Dick Cheney
Folks just remember, the electronic machines are here so that you dont have a repete of the whole 2000 fiasco. See, when the electronic machines go wrong theres no way to tell, so the election won't be slowed down with pesky recounts. Even if there was question about the election, it would never get in the media because while "hanging chad" can be explained to the masses, "buffer overflow" cannot. Anyway im sure Diebold is a responsible company who wouldnt let their republican affiliation get in the way of a undetectable vote tampering.
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Several groups concerned with electronic voting are recommending that people vote absentee in their voting district plans on using electronic voting machines without a voter-verifyable paper trail (VVPT). In many places, the deadline for getting an absentee primary ballot has passed, but some counties using e-voting technoloyg in CA and MD are allowing people to vote on paper (though not always at every voting station in the county--often only at one or two central polling stations).
Heck, you can always just claim that you are Amish and are religiously forbidden from voting electronically. I don't know if this is true, but I doubt the poll worker would be able to call you on it.
Where I vote, the "old" paper system used before last fall's recall of CA governor Davis was punched cards with chads (both polling place and absentee). That's almost as bad as the touch-screen systems. And the state is not requiring paper trails on the new systems until long after the presidential election (2005-2006, if I recall correctly). Strike 1.
The only good news here is that concurrently with the touch-screen roll-out, absentee ballots were changed to scannable paper forms.
Unfortunately, the voter guide arrived too late to order one using the form it came with. Strike 2.
So I drove down to the registrar's office for early voting and gave as my reason, under penalty of perjury, that I distrust the new touch-screen systems. They gave me a ballot and I voted. Since this is a 3-strike state, I'm glad it didn't get that far.
It looks like the only solution here for the time being is to request a permanent absentee ballot.
Oh man im sorry i just cant help it:
Why did the American voter cross the road? To get some democracy
Knock Knock
-Whos there?
Vote
-Vote who?
Vote who-ever you like, it just gets piped to the republicans!
Hey bob, did you hear about the new election system?
No? how does it work?
It electionically transfers 'votes' from a politicial party's bank account to Diebolds!
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We're bad at math and statistics, too.
. . . are Americans more ignorant about the American politcal system than Europeans?
Gosh, I'd love to spend some time answering this, but I have Average Joe II on TIVO and I have to finish watching it to make room for American Idol.
Oh! Gotta go get the door. It's Domino's.
From the outside, it seems the system is rife with jusrisdictional and definitional issues.
Welcome to Amerika.
With respect to this article, I really
Don't know if I agree. I find it
Unlikely that Diebold could be anything other than an
Honest company with only the best intentions in mind. Don't you?
hehe.
~Dalcius
Rome wasn't burnt in a day.
Primaries, mail-in ballots, an all-night draw poker game among all interested candidates, or simply drawing a name out of a hat?
Ah, I see you're familiar with the Iowa Caucus.