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Diebold Leaks 2008 Election Results

Posted by samzenpus on from the vote-early-vote-often dept.

samzenpus writes "With all the scrutiny that Diebold has received in past few years you'd think that they would be more careful but apparently due to a malfunction in some machines, they have leaked the results to the 2008 presidential race early. Hopefully this will be the nail in Diebold's coffin. Surely we have another company in this country that can run a sham election better."

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  1. Re:end of the internet by Skuldo · · Score: 1, Informative

    You're posting on the politics site..

  2. Re:Since when was this Digg? by LarsWestergren · · Score: 4, Informative

    I didn't realise /. had started posting links to things the submitter happened to find amusing today.

    Then you honestly can't have been here very long. The foot icon appears at least a couple of times a week on the frontpage and indicates a "funny" story submission. If it displeases you, you can filter away these stories in your preferences.

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  3. Re:The Onion on /.? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Take a look at the "topic" icon - that foot thingy? If you hold the mouse over it for a second or two, it'll give you a secret message about the reason the article was posted.

  4. Re:Samzenpus is an idiot for posting this. !news by Taevin · · Score: 5, Informative
    Instructions for those who have a anti-humour cattle prod stuck up their ass:
    1. Click the Help & Preferences link at the top of the page.
    2. Click on the Sections link under the Index subsection of the Your Preferences section.
    3. Select the Never radio button for the Entertainment category.
    4. Click the Save button.
    Congratulations, you have successfully filtered humour from your life. No longer will your boring life be terrorized by "this stupid shit."
  5. Re:end of the internet by KillerBob · · Score: 2, Informative

    Not sure if you're being sarcastic or not but from a pure time wasting and proactive security standpoint, it makes perfect sense. I can't think of one site that uses flash for something that is actually productive or necessary to most core business functions. Sounds like an easy way to block the myriad video sites that pop up left and right.


    Been to http://www.dell.com/ lately? Or any other vendor, for that matter? Sure, the site can be done without flash... but in a business where people make buying decisions based on how something is presented, with bonus points for being "sexy", having something like well-designed and well-implemented Flash applet on the website can make a *huge* difference to your bottom line.

    You're making the mistake of thinking like an engineer, not a consumer.
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