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Electoral-vote.com Under Heavy Load; Attack?

Posted by timothy on from the get-your-provisioning-on dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Electoral-vote.com (and mirrors electoral-vote2.com through electoral-vote8.com) seem to be very slow at the moment. Votemaster ( A. Tanenbaum) just posted 'All the servers appear to be under attack now, also DNS. I added another large multiprocessor but it doesn't seem to help much. I don't this is going to work. Sorry.' Massive attack or just a large flash crowd? Anybody up for some mirroring so votemaster can concentrate on the polls?" Reader fishwack writes with word that as of 3:46GMT (10:46 PM Eastern time in the U.S.) "the Federal Electoral Commission's Web site is down."

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  1. In Other News by Jakhel · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Check out the exit polls. Scroll down to what people believe are the most important qualities in a president. Only 7% said intelligence!!!!! HOLY FUCK!!! JESUS CHRIST, is this the country that I'm living in?!?!?!?

    1. Re:In Other News by FooAtWFU · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I for one don't care whether my President can solve Fermat's Last Theorem, score a 1600 on the SAT or anything like that. They don't need to. The Presidency is not rocket science. It's not a matter of intelligence, it's a matter of wisdom. This applies to both candidates.

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    2. Re:In Other News by kfg · · Score: 5, Insightful

      There are very, very many 'intelligent' people with little to no wisdom.

      However, there are very, very few stupid people who do.

      KFG

    3. Re:In Other News by Rhys · · Score: 4, Insightful

      The scary thing is that more people are concerned about the president's religious preferences/beliefs than his intelligence.

      That should scare you.

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  2. *sigh* by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I don't understand why Slashbots assume that people who support Bush are dumb. I don't support Bush; I voted for Kerry. But I don't think that people who voted for Bush are dumb. They just have different priorities, values, and opinions than I do. I just don't get it: I understand Bush bashing (he's a public figure after all), but why bash people who voted for him? Attacking someone who holds a different opinion than you does not help your cause...

    1. Re:*sigh* by mcrbids · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I don't understand why Slashbots assume that people who support Bush are dumb.

      Choosing to drive a VW bug is not stupid, unless you're going to haul cement by the ton.

      In much the same way, choosing to go with George Bush is not stupid, unless you're trying to run a country.

      Now, assume that you're sitting at a construction site, with contractors everywhere. Somebody shows up in a VW full of concrete bags, promsing to make a run to get more.

      VW != stupid.

      Concrete != stupid.

      VW + concrete == stupid.

      Simple math, no?

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    2. Re:*sigh* by PMuse · · Score: 4, Insightful

      That's the reason America is the way it is today.

      Right. Because if the US had direct popular presidential elections, that would have fixed this mess. [Bush 51%, Kerry 48%]

      Face it, Americans have voted to deny their shame. Bush told them that the US had done right. Kerry told them it had done wrong. They drank the koolaid. It's going to take another full Vietnam-sytle awfulness for Americans to change course; they're incapable of seeing disaster until after it's happened.

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  3. In case you think this is over tonight by Peyna · · Score: 4, Insightful

    just some of the problems that went down today.

    It won't be over at least a week if not longer. So long as it's decided by inauguration day, we'll be okay.

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  4. Re:it looks like Bush will win by mrchaotica · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Suck it up! When we stop being divided, we open the door to single-party totalitarianism.

    When we stop being divided, we stop being free.

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  5. stupid wise people by wotevah · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Intelligence has not much to do with the above, though it can definitely help there. Can you imagine a wise person lacking intelligence though ?

  6. One more option by Shihar · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Last election I watched an exit poller. He had no method of randomly selecting people to poll as far as I could tell. The only pattern I could see is that he seemed to be more inclined to ask pretty young woman.

    Conspiracy theories aside, I think it is just bad polling. Democrats are generally younger. Younger people are generally prettier and look more approachable. It might be a small effect, but do it a few thousand times and it adds up. I am not saying that it isn't worth looking into, but my gut guess would be that it is simply poor random selection.

  7. Re:Bush is going to win -- now what? by Thomas+Miconi · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Simple.

    We're doomed.

    Thomas-