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Dave Barry on Electronic Voting

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the stuff-to-read dept.

eggoeater writes "With the general interest Slashdot has with electronic voting machines, I thought we'd all enjoy reviewing Dave Barry's take on touch-screen voting machines and debating the merits of police officers carrying lightsabers."

7 of 323 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Pork Barrel budgets? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    He can't provide evidence because there isn't any. Even the 9/11 Commission acknowledged this.

    Isn't it scary that people like this dipshit are allowed to vote? People like him are going to put Dubya back in the White House.

  2. Re:Maybe a little offtopic but... by peragrin · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    >>Hey, if John Connor can highjack an ATM with nothing but his Atari portable computer, anything's possible, right?"

    Um The ATM was probally running windows anyway. You probally could hack it with a gameboy running Nix anyway.

    --
    i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.
  3. Republicans are so super smart... by Guuge · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    that they whine about an 'intellectual elite' while calling everyone but themselves stupid.

    Remember, you can't love America if you hate Americans.

  4. Re:30 Second Commercial Spots by cremes · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Like those Swift Boat Vet adds. They have been completely discredited, but many people will never learn that part of it and only remember the adds themselves.
    But they haven't been completely discredited.

    And since you didn't offer any proof of your assertion, I won't either. nyah nyah.

    cr
  5. From Dave's July-30th essay by JYavner · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    SPEAKER: . . . and THAT, my fellow Democrats, is why we must defeat this lying fascist criminal war-mongering scum-sucking vermin toad, who, in the interest of remaining positive, I am not going to mention by name.
    This explains why electronic voting is not a good idea right now. Diebold is in bed with a lying fascist criminal war-mongering president. I hope the international observers (plus Jimmy Carter) can catch him on some election irregularities--then other countries would be justified in not recognizing Bush's government after January.

  6. Re:Banned by cbiagini · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Canada has always had pencil-and-paper voting and always seems to be able to get decisive results in a few hours. Why can't the Americans do this?
    Wild guess, but it could be the fact that your population is one ninth the size of ours, you Canadian ponce.
  7. Re:Swift Boat Ads Discredited by ptbarnett · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    There has also been huge amounts of evidence that the sift boat vets for thruth have direct ties to the Bush campaign (a violation of campaign finance law if true).

    The same can be said for MoveOn and Kerry's campaign Personally, I think the Swift Boat controversy is a non-issue. What people should really be asking Kerry is what really happened in Kansas City in 1971, as he has been changing his story whenever confronted with a contradicting account.

    If there was even a hint that Bush has been involved in a conspiracy to murder US Senators, the mainstream media would be dogging him until he resigned. Even if Kerry did indeed resign in disgust after the plan was voted down, one has to wonder why a man who now wants to be President didn't immediately report the plot to the FBI.