Diebold Disks May Have Been For Testers

opencity writes "The Washington Post reports on the two Diebold source disks that were anonymously sent to a Maryland election official this past week. Further investigation has lead individuals involved to believe the disks came from a security check demanded by the Maryland legislature sometime in 2003." From the article: "Critics of electronic voting said the most recent incident in Maryland casts doubt on Lamone's claim that Maryland has the nation's most secure voting system. "There now may be numerous copies of the Diebold software floating around in unauthorized hands," said Linda Schade, co-founder of TrueVoteMD, which has pressed for a system that provides a verifiable paper record of each vote."

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[NoTheory]

Er... flamebait? I don't think that my post contained anything that's controversial in content (tagging is not a good descriptive statistical tool), and i don't think the rhetorical style i chose (while perhaps a bit too familiar) was insulting, or clearly spoiling for a fight. Complainging about this sort of tag pollution is directly analogous to google bombing, and my point is that nobody seemed to raise a furor about that.

OT/Troll moderation must mean I've hit a nerve

[nido]

So Milosovich was valiant anti-imperialist?
Right.

One theory is that Milosovich was winning his war-crimes trial at the Hague, and was going to call Bill Clinton as a hostile witness in his defense. Mighty convenient that he died of a 'heart attack'. But what do I know, I'm just the jester on the sidelines.

And the Islamists are striking a blow against imperialism? By stoning women to death? Or chanting Islam is a religion of peace!! and shooting a 75 year old nun?

The controlled media picks up on the worst-of-the-worst in the islamic world, to make sure 'we' look down on 'them' as primitive. There are plenty of examples of nasty people in our own midst - who are we to look down on bad-apple islamists shooting a nun, when two American Highschoolers slaughtered 10 buddhist monks in a petty war game/robbery?

NAFTA is the least of Clinton's transgressions: Who Said Clinton Didn't Kill Anybody?