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Diebold Demands That HBO Cancel Documentary
Frosty Piss writes "According to the Bloomberg News, Diebold Inc. is insisting that HBO cancel a documentary that questions the integrity of its voting machines, calling the program inaccurate and unfair. The program, 'Hacking Democracy,' is scheduled to debut Thursday, five days before the 2006 U.S. midterm elections. The film claims that Diebold voting machines aren't tamper-proof and can be manipulated to change voting results. 'Hacking Democracy' is 'replete with material examples of inaccurate reporting,' says Diebold. 'We stand by the film," said a spokesman for HBO. 'We have no intention of withdrawing it from our schedule. It appears that the film Diebold is responding to is not the film HBO is airing.'"
Should we show the Diebold documentary?
Yes: 25%
No: 21%
Republican: 54%
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ECHELON is a government program to find words like bomb, jihad, plutonium, assassinate, and anarchy.
I demand that you withdraw your post, or . . . I'll stamp my feet and demand again.
Don't expect a lawsuit to come of this. That would mean discovery.
KFG
Is anyone else reminded of Jim Carey in Liar Liar?
Fletcher: Your honor, I object!
Judge: Why?
Fletcher: Because it's devastating to my case!
Judge: Overruled.
Fletcher: Good call!
Coffee and oatmeal-raisin cookies bits out the nose - that stings!
I'm really forced to wonder if the Slashdot group-think would hate Diebold as much as they do if Gore won in 2000 or Kerry won in 2004. I sincerely doubt it. If anything, they'd probably be considered as heroes in that case.
Call that a flame or troll if you want (and I'm sure that politically-charged mods who love to abuse their mod privileges will be more than willing to do so); but with the collective hatred for anything republican on Slashdot, things have finally gotten to the point where any statements against Diebold are as knee-jerk or fashionable as the rampant anti-Microsoftism and anti-republicanism that we all see. They're almost as cliché as the "overlord" and "you insensitive clod" comments.
Well, if you do a German-to-English translation of "Diebold" on Babelfish, it comes back with "thief old".
Even worse, if you rearrange the letters of Diebold Election Systems, you get So Dems Lose Indetectibly.
Coincidence? You decide.
Momentarily, the need for the construction of new light will no longer exist.
SCO was the one doing the fishing.
If you are the fish you do not demand the hook.
KFG
Well I can see the plain paper roll vote record - http://www.diebold.com/nasadmk/cgi-bin/desi_catalo g.pl?section=9&id=170/ - but where are the ones preprinted with the results you want?
I'm guessing that wasn't on their radar screen...