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Programmer Claims he was Paid to Rig Votes
Duke Machesne writes "In the year 2000, Florida Republican Representative Tom Feeney hired programmer Clint Curtis, while he was working for NASA contractor Yang Enterprises, to write an undetectable vote flipping program which could 'control' the votes of electronic voting machines, according to Wayne Madsen's latest article for the Online Journal."
and Jesus built my hot rod.
how about some proof? good thing he's getting his 15 minutes of fame though.
Get paid to code OSS
I know there are many here at /. who would like to see a story like this be true (both for political reasons and for anti-e-voting reasons (I'm in this second group)). But if this has ANY truth to it, here is my guess:
It's a half-truth. The guy was paid to write a program to do it as an exercise to see how simple it would be to do. For all we know it was requested as part of a security review to be turned over to the company that made the e-voting equiptment to show them security holes that people were concerned about.
Now I have no proof, but if this is true at all, that would be my guess. And, of course, there is nothing wrong or illegal about writing such a program unless you intend to use or distribute it, which we also don't know about.
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You know, I thought the same thing about how the Catholic church gave safe passage to Nazis when the war was ending...
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What does that say about Slashdot?
What does it say about your dependence upon straw man arguments? This may or may not be true, but what sites reference it or do not reference says nothing about the same. Given the history of the Republicans to engage in and condone rampant criminality it certainly passes the smell test.
How do we know this isn't Karl Rove setting us up, the way he set up Dan Rather?
I hadn't heard this one before... Rove forced Rather to not check sources or even get competent document experts to validate the memos?
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You, sir, are freakin' insane. You'd like to see the bloodbath that would probably ensue if it turned out to be true? You hate the results of the election so much that you'd like to find out that your republic had been destroyed?
I desperately want not to believe this. As long as most of us have reasonable faith in our electoral process, we can get through pretty much anything. The alternative is probably not far short of civil war.
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
But you'd prefer to allow government officials to keep their positions even if they actually cheated in the elections?
Perhaps the alternative is indeed a civil war. In the long term, how is that worse than a government and nation cheated by the elite few?
As long as most of us have reasonable faith in our electoral process, we can get through pretty much anything.
You mean like a plummeting dollar, a failing economy, a losing war, an unprecedented transfer of money to the wealthiest few, thousands of war deaths, and a dismantling of civil rights and our constitution?
Who we elect matters. And if people get into government by corrupt means, they are probably up to no good and can cause serious harm to everybody. The US was founded by people who did not want to have hereditary rulers. Do you want to bring that back? Is Jenna's husband automatically going to be the next president?
civil war is better than ignorant peace. if your solution to the problems with the electoral process is to ignore them, stick your head in the sand, and have faith (despite evidence to the contrary), you've already lost what you were trying to protect. you might have peace, but you have to admit, you have theoretically zero control over the electoral process.
i'd prefer civil war to faith in a broken electoral process. faith doesn't fix it. it just means we'll have false happiness while things get bad... really bad.
That's practically a tell-tale sign of a fake article...
While the article is interesting, the connections run all the way to 419-ers...
I want more info. After all, extraordinary claims (like these) demand extraordinary proof.
That's a very good way to start a war, when people know that there are cheaters in office they tend to want them out of office and are prepared to go to great lengths to get them out.
Witness Ukraine where a lot of people don't want a suspected cheater to take office they are threatening to become independent, something that would spark civil war. Yet you think letting the suspected cheater take office anyway would stop a civil war! Judging by the real world example your wrong.
As for saying there is precedent that's a pathetic excuse, what happened to Americas "moral" majority.
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