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Programmer Built Vote-Rigging Demo for Florida Politician
Syre writes "therawstory reports that a programmer named Clinton Curtis says in a sworn affidavit (mirror) that he developed prototype vote-rigging software at the request of then-Florida state representative Tom Feeney. The affidavit has been turned over to the House Judiciary Committee, of which Feeney is now a member. Should we call for inspection and disassembly of all the voting machine code to see if it contains any of these secret vote tampering functions he was asked to include in his prototype?" A follow-up interview is available. A point to emphasize: he's not making any claims of actual fraud occurring in the Florida elections.
Let's see ... 400+ posts about vote fixing without supporting facts, most of those will be flames, but at least Slashdot will make advertising revenue, right?
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Oh yes that's so insightful. God, give me a fucking break. The election wasn't stolen. Kerry was a horrible candidate. Someday maybe you'll look outside your little bubble and talk to some people who don't share your leftist values.
Your logic is flawed. You compare the valid voter fraud in the Ukraine to lazy, uninformed voters in America.
And, actually, if you want to talk about "lazy" voters: the laziest group of voters in the US is most likely the one that you are a part of, 18-25 year olds.
Anyways, have fun distorting reality to fit your narrow views! Bush won Florida and Ohio. Get the fuck over it and start working on how to gain senate/house seats in 2002 election. If the left doesn't get in shape soon, the Repubs will have a filibuster proof lead in the Senate and then you guys will really be in trouble.
Diebold is the worst. Walmart could do a better job, designing secure voting machines and the network to connect them. Dell could do a better job.
Christ, Darryl Mcbride could do a better job. If he ever stops smoking that crack and ditches some lawyers, he could probably make that company into a halfway profitable enterprise.
Santa Cruz Orignization for Rigged Elections
It's important to realize that if fraud does turn up, Republicans will likely try to blame the programmer thereby isolating the incident from the Republican party. It IS NOT the fault of the programmer, as many people have stated above, this is a legitimate whitehat security exercise, BUT if this programmers code were misused it is the fault of the person who USED it and they HAVE TO be prosecuted for that, NOT the programmer.
We have to make sure the story stays that way all the way through to the end.
Sorry, but that doesn't prove anything, other than tin-foil hat conspiracy theories.
You go by the false assumptions that 1) People actually tell exit pollers the truth and 2) that the people being interviewed are unbiased.
Hell, there were stories after the election about how people actually sought out exit pollers to be interviewed!
The election was won fair and square, and despite the efforts of Democrats in Florida 2000 to steal the election from Bush, it wasn't close enough to try it again in 2004.
Deal.