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How to Hack the Vote and Steal the Election
divisionbyzero writes "Many people have asked for it so that the government will have to deal with it. So here it is: a guide to stealing an election that uses electronic voting machines written by Jon Stokes over at Arstechnica.
From the article:
"In all this time, I've yet to find a good way to convey to the non-technical public how well and truly screwed up we presently are, six years after the Florida recount. So now it's time to hit the panic button: In this article, I'm going to show you how to steal an election.""
There is so a step 2.
Make sure you have enough connections that if the vote is questionable or close, the courts will arbitrarily award you victory regardless of the numbers.
Worked for Shrub... :(
I do not fail; I succeed at finding out what does not work.
Stealing implies taking from someone their rightful property; what I want to do is "copy" votes...mine, theirs, and everyone's and put them in places that will do the most good.
Who is to define "good", you ask? Why, that would be me, silly.
Security through obscurity never works for long.
What? It's worked for the Apple Macintosh for nearly 20 years now! When was the last time you saw a virus targed for the Macintosh?
SJW: a person who perceives an injustice, and while correcting it, commits a greater injustice.
...had nothing to do with electronic voting machines.
The Florica recount involved a butterfly ballot designed by a Democrat election commissioner, dimpled chads and a pivotal state election where the margin of victory was smaller than the margin of error.
Al Gore had already conceded defeat when Democrats decided that all they had to do was manufacture a few Democrat votes and invalidate a few Republican votes and they had the Presidency.
HOW GEORGE W. BUSH STOLE ELECTION 2000
"Al, this is David Boies of Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP, America's richest trial lawyers. I apologize for calling so late, but this won't wait."
"Look, I know you've already conceded, but I've been talking to some folks in Florida and they think they can find enough extra votes down there to give you the state in a recount."
"Just a recount in Volusia, Palm Beach, Broward, and Miami-Dade counties, though."
"If it goes statewide our people will be spread too thin to keep things under control."
"Do you want to give it a try? At this point you've got nothing to lose."
"That's great, Al. I'll give 'em a call and we'll get this show on the road."
"Call Bush right away to let him know you've changed your mind."
"On second thought, call a press conference first."
"Talk to you later, Mr. President."
We must be alert to the danger that public policy could become captive to a scientific-technological elite. - Eisenhower
Fill all your public schools with unionized government workers who are not appraised by their result or performance, and who rely on taxation and artificially inflate labor wages. THey pass this "I deserve your money but didnt earn it" mentality on to every kid in the class.
"neither hetero nor homo couples get any preferrential treatment over singles. Screw government interference)."
I agree wholeheartedly, but its probably not realistic to expect social engineering by government to stop anytime soon. There are deeply ingrained biological, political, religious, economic and social compulsions to promote the stereotypical "family". If everyone stops having children and raising them properly then social structure collapse. As most developed nations have instituted massive social safety nets for seniors, and as life expectency has dramatically increased there is a social compulsion to make sure people breed more so there are enough young people to bleed white to support seniors who are often living 20-30 years past retirement and are receiving extensive and expensive medical care. Affluence and education actually leads people to have fewer children which is bad, while the poor and uneducated produce ever more kids, so politicians are obsessed with stepping in.
Japan is currently in the forefront of developed countries with declining population and a huge economic and social problem providing a safety net for its seniors. There are only three solutions, cut benefits to seniors and threaten their quality of life or survival, jack up taxes and bleed the young ever more which hammers economic growth or try to engineer the production of more children through things like tax incentives.
In a massively overpopulated planet it would be extremely desirable if we actually did have a big population contraction. Unfortunately population IS contracting among the affluent and well educated and still exploding in the 3rd world among the poor and uneducated which is bad.
So the bottomline is there is are a host of reasons why government in developed countries engage in social engineering favoring the married with children occurs and is unlikely to ever stop. Religious bias among politicians also compels them to promote the Adam and Eve family.
Tax breaks also win votes from the married with children crowd who are probably more likely to vote than partying singles. It is also a fact that raising children is expensive and is a big financial burden on families that singles don't have and they can use some help.
There are a lot of days when I really don't appreciate paying to educate someone else's juvenile delinquents especially when that education is so horrible in the U.S. and is doing such an incredibly poor job with the most gifted kids. The "No Child Left Behind" obsession with the least able students is pure insanity for social well being. We should be pouring maximum resources in the most talented students to insure they get world class education and encouraging the least able in to vocational education where they can find skills suited to their abilities. In reality I think "No Child Left Behind" was more focused on compelling all kids to develop the basic skills necessary for military server and to give military recruiters unlimited access to young children to try to maximize the supply of cannon fodder without instituting a draft. I really think "No Child Left Behind" is really militarism posing as education and is seriously biased to getting the least gifted students prepped for enlisted duty in the military.
@de_machina
Is this supposed to prove some point? Basically you are saying that you are an asshole, or that you endorse being an asshole, or something screwed up like that.
Completely hiding a VERY large part of the movie from appearing in trailers or being mentioned in reviews by professional reviewers I would actually consider forcing it on me. Had they made mention of it, I would have chosen to spend my money elsewhere that evening. I certainly would not have went and stood in front of the theater and said "eww. your going to see that movie? eww your gross" to whomever chose to go, but I personally choose not to see it.
To your second point, It is also not my fault they are in that circumstance. Why should I have to pay for it, and in the end, my kids have to pay for it? I didn't hit the guy with my car. I didn't force the african american child to live in poverty. I didn't impregnate his mother and leave her there to have the child in poverty. So quite frankly, why should I be forced to pay for them?
If I so choose to give to a charity, and I do when its one I belive in, or give someone work to do who needs the money, then I can (and do quite often) give them what I wish. I do not however see how it should be forced on me by others who then determine what to do with my money.
Sound cold and heartless? possibly. but where does it stop? If you give to this african american child, then what about this white middle class child whos parents are busting to keep residing in an excellent neighborhood with excellent schools. What if that kid can't have the clothes of the same brand as is popular at the time, so that child is ridiculed in school, and suffers humiliation from his piers. should we not then give that child his jeans?
Just three more hours seapeople and you can finally take me away from this crappy God Damned planet full of hippies