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Will the Next Election Be Hacked?
plasmacutter writes to let us know about the new article by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in Rolling Stone, following up on his "Was the 2004 Election Stolen?" (slashdotted here). Kennedy recounts the sorry history of electronic voting so far in this country — and some of the incidents will be new even to this clued-in crowd. (Had you heard about the CERT advisory on an undocumented backdoor account in a Diebold vote-tabulating database — crediting Black Box Voting?) Kennedy's reporting is bolstered by the accounts of a Diebold insider who has gone on record with his concerns. From the article: 'Chris Hood remembers the day in August 2002 that he began to question what was really going on in Georgia... "It was an unauthorized patch, and they were trying to keep it secret from the state," Hood told me. "We were told not to talk to county personnel about it. I received instructions directly from [president of Diebold election unit Bob] Urosevich...' According to Hood, Diebold employees altered software in some 5,000 machines in DeKalb and Fulton counties, the state's largest Democratic strongholds. The tally in Georgia that November surprised even the most seasoned political observers. (Hint: Republicans won.)
More leftie rant fodder.
"news for nerds?" I think not
If democrats win then clearly no and it won't be brought up by any democrat / liberal media (Slashdot included). When the republicans win then yes, it was unfair / miscounted / cheated / hacked / [Insert other bullshit here]. Democrats can't win because they cannot even get along themselves.
1) The Republicans agree to everything the critics want regarding electronic voting machines: greater security, paper trail, whatever, or just ditch the whole idea and go back to paper ballots. 2) The Democrats agree to picture ID for voting (available free to anyone too poor to have one), thorough cleaning of all voter rolls (to eliminate the cemetery voters, and situations like Philadelphia's where there are more registered voters than adult citizens over 18), and increased penalties for vote fraud (snowbirds who vote in Florida and New York, college students who vote at home and at school, bribing the homeless with cigarettes for votes, illegal alien voters, etc.).
My guess, though, is that Republicans would agree to this but Democrats wouldn't, because Democrat vote fraud is widespread and well-established, while Republican vote fraud is rare or is, as in the recent electronic voting machine cases, still hypothetical.
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I would love for someone to explain to me how my parent post is a troll, other then the fact that the modder doesn't agree with me.
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They are sore loosers....For some reason, they think they are "entitled" to hold office and that the rest of us in "flyover" country, are redneck,nascar,trailerpark idiots that can't hold a job. The reason that liberals don't win elections, is that they do NOT give an alternative. All they know how to do is whhhhhhhhiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnneeeeeeee if they don't get their way. Go back and look at the 1960 election. If anyone had reason to dispute the election, it was Nixon! Asked why he didn't dispute the election he said that it would divide the country. Well DUH! Look, for the last 6 years, all we've heard out of the democratic moonbats is that the election was stolen. Well, GET OVER IT! You think conservatives liked having Clinton elected twice? Nope, but did I whinnneeee about it? Nope....but I did laugh when he got caught LYING before a federal judge and was impeached. Too bad the non-conservatives in the senate didn't impeach him also. And no, he wasn't impeached for "lying about sex". He was impeached for LYING under oath! THAT, is a crime. Period. It's black & white...you tell the truth or you LIE. I know that is something a lot of liberals don't like. Everything is gray with that bunch. Explains why we have so much political correctness. Look at the major cities that have such a problem with crime, and you'll find they are the same BLUE states that keep electing liberals. THANK GOD we have an electoral college to even out the small less populus states with the large populated states. Read the documents the founding fathers wrote as to why we have an electoral college.
they shouldn't be too proud to ask for help.
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They aren't when it comes to borrowing money to fight a war, that's for sure
I'm sorry, but wtf is up with you people screwing around with your polls? Don't you people have any respect for the democratic process?
How we know is more important than what we know.
Not if you use Republican math!
I hate printers.
I remember hearing lots of talk about how Clinton stole the election and should be impeached from day one of his term.
At first I thought that you were being sarcastic, but it appears that you're serious...
Kennedy's election had fraud allegations swirling over 40 years ago. Vote early, vote often and all that.
LK
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Or how about some tough thats getting paid to "enoforce the vote" in their neighborhood. Everyone has to show them their receipt that they had voted for the "correct" candidate or get roughed up. Still can't understand??
I think the REAL reason there is so much resistance to voting machines is that it makes it harder to do traditional cheating; not wanting to count votes of overseas service men, collecting and submitting absentee ballots, voting as people who you know will not show up.
All these tactics were tried by the democrats in the last two elections. If these methods become impossible the democratic party will just disappear. Thank god!
GNAA suspected in death of Rob Levin
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An announcement of his death was transmitted as a Global Notice across the Freenode network, on September 17 at 06:18 JST:
06:18 -christel(i=christel@freenode/staff/gentoo.christe l)- [Global Notice] On the 12th September Rob Levin, known to many as Freenode's lilo, was hit by a car while riding his bike. He suffered head injuries and passed away in hospital on the 16th. For more information please visit #freenode-announce
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