Diebold Flops in Alaska

lukej writes "From the Anchorage Daily News, During yesterday's preliminary and ballot measure election across Alaska, Diebold built voting machines failed to 'phone home' causing a hand recount. As a party spokesperson said: "I can say there are many systematic problems with Diebold machines that have been identified in many contexts." Additionally, the state itself has mandated some hand counts of all electronic results, and the Democratic Party is simply suggesting voters request paper voting."

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Re:I am actually happy that elections are rigged..

[level_headed_midwest]

Clinton signed the DMCA bill and made it a law. I would have to assume that Gore, being Clinton's second-in-command, could have said something to prevent its passing. But he didn't, so I can only infer that he would have signed more DRM and anti-fair-use bills into law. And I highly doubt that Gore would have ousted the Taliban in Afghanistan after 9/11. (Would we have been attacked in the first place: definitely. All of the attacks were planned WELL in advance of Bush taking office less than a year before.) Other than that, it's pretty much a wild guess.

Kerry? Well, who knows with him as he's more indecisive than a woman with two dresses trying to figure which one makes her butt smaller. I imagine that except for raising taxes (BTW, his wife paid a measly 12% of her seven figures of income in taxes in 2004 and that is BELOW the lowest tax bracket!) his administration would have been a complete and utter mess, especially if Congress would have been the same as it is now. Nothing but bickering and John Murtha-esque I'll-shut-down-the-government-unless-I-get-my-way tactics.

Basically put, none of the candidates were all that hot; it's getting towards picking the least foul one rather than one you like the most as all of them stink to varying degrees.