Diebold Leaks 2008 Election Results

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."

Comments

And this isn't in idle...why?

[Volante3192]

Funny, probably, but does it really belong in what's supposed to be a serious section?

Re:And this isn't in idle...why?

[pembo13]

I think we would first have to argue if Politics (at least this specific form of politics) can really be considered serious in the first place.

Thats bad?

[Anonymous Coward]

With the votes leaked the raw data is out...so there was no time to apply "democracy" to the data.
This way if X won...u cant say it was because there was inner agreement and tempered data.

Since when was this Digg?

[Stuart Gibson]

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

Re:Since when was this Digg?

[ultranova]

every other post calling America a fascist police state.

Yeah, it annoys me too. America is not a fascist police state; America is a plutocratic police state. The difference is that under fascism, economy booms, while under plutocracy, economy goes kaboom.

Samzenpus is an idiot for posting this. !news

[mw13068]

This is not news, it doesn't matter, it's not /.

Start spamming /. with this stupid shit at your own risk.

LOL... So with 9 months to go...

[Anonymous Coward]

The dems are already preparing an excuse just in case the improbable happens and they actually manage to lose this presidential election. The sad part is that a lot of people will believe in it.

Re:It's asinine to post Onion satire as news here

[justkeeper]

You're on slashdot so your time can be wasted.

wrong but that does not matter

[dario_moreno]

This time the media (not Diebold) are going to have an apparently nice democrat elected, since Bush went a little too far but it should be obvious that once again it won't make any notable difference. Kucinich, Paul or Nader would have, but this would be against so many interests....

Re:wrong but that does not matter

[stinerman]

Meh, I actually think that Obama has a small chance of being a once-in-a-lifetime figure that might get *some* good done. He's certainly the best Democrat since I've been alive (but that isn't saying too much).

I might actually vote for him in the general if he doesn't throw away half his issues like most politicians do after the primary. The Libertarians and Greens are both going to run unpalatable candidates, and Nader will be lucky if he gets on more than a handful of state ballots.

Now in a Clinton-McCain race, all bets are off. I could see myself writing in some joker or just leaving the ballot blank.

Re:wrong but that does not matter

[pla]

Do you really think those guys would have made a difference?

In eight years, one man in that office took us from having a strong economy and reasonably decent foreign relations, to the pariah of the world with an economy so weak even the CANADIAN dollar beats our own.

So yeah, the right person in that office could certainly go a long way toward improving things. Not to say I consider any of the named people that impressive (I liked RP, but don't know that he would have had the cooperation to even start to undo Bush's damage), but as proof of concept, you have to concede the point.

Well, now that The Onion is being cited...

[rickb928]

/. is pretty flushed down the toilet.

Secretly, I'm proud of the Onion gang. They succeed at being seen as legit, relevant, newsworthy, true (!), and just plain really neato. The best TV news is still the Jon Stewart stuff. Life goes on.

Glad also to see someone else gets duped. I haven't been taken by The Onion ever, but the Washington Post has caught me a few times...

And since when has it been a wast of OUR time to revel in the delightful agony of a fellow /.'r getting completely fooled, or fooling us in the bargain?

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Fark

[_14k4]

When did this site become fark? This was on _that_ page yesterday, and to top it off, did not involve an embedded flash movie.

That's two posts in one day that have those flash movies in them. One of the reasons I read /. is because there is little network traffic during the visit. I suppose that's not very true anymore, unless I go to the text only theme.

Funny excerpt

[guruevi]

"This country is based on the fantasy that the government is the voice of the people"

Best quote, ever, and true as well.

Re:end of the internet

[bigstrat2003]

Or, not. Cause, you know, it's not an ad. And it doesn't auto-play, so it's not hurting anyone.

I swear, some people miss no opportunity to smugly mention their ad-blocker.

Re:end of the internet

[orclevegam]

I swear, some people miss no opportunity to smugly mention their ad-blocker. I don't use an ad-blocker, I use a flash-blocker. The fact that it sometimes catches ads is just a bonus.

Re:end of the internet

[DirtyHerring]

They don't allow Flash here at work. It is a bummer....keeps us out of other sites too.

Where do you work? Smart decision makers there.

THIS JUST IN

[Gay for Linux]

BREAKING NEWS STORY: Comments posted on a slashdot thread earlier today indicate its readers are a bunch of humorless, whiny fags.

Re:THIS JUST IN

[Toonol]

Exactly. I'm a bit disappointed in my fellow Slashdot participants today. This is an obvious joke; Slashdot is not CNN, they can post jokes occasionally. That's a good thing. The flash video doesn't load and play automatically, so it's not a significant waste of bandwidth. If you are insulted at the mere suggestion of flash... well, you get insulted too easily.

voting tech IS tech

[jahknow]

To the "why is this here on /." replies, I humbly submit the following: Please note that this IS a geek/tech-related post. Note the explicit warning of humor, as exhibited by the big monty python foot icon. If anyone takes offence (sp) at this being yet another US-centric post, well, I'll give you that, but just remember that US political and technological affairs do affect everyone -- just ask an Iraqi... or an Afghani, or an Iranian, or a Cuban, or a Vietnamese... I'm too lazy to link to the 12,000 non-humorous /. posts on the sad state of e-voting in the states, but I'm sure you've already ignored those posts once. That said, the video itself was stale, predictable Onion humor -- you really needn't read past the headline, as there's not much more too it.

Re:not news to YOU maybe

[geekoid]

If Samzenpus viewed that, an actually thought it was a real news item then they should be immediatly banned from the internet..hell, anything with a computer.

It does belong on /., but under humor because it was pretty damn funny.

Re:end of the internet

[thomas.galvin]

More to the point, why does Slashdot seem to be joining the whole "audio and video" trend? I had hopped that we were still a fairly literate group of people... if I want video and pics, I'll go to digg. I come here to read.

Re:end of the internet

[mhall119]

How are sites slashdotted when nobody reads TFAs? Prefetch?

Re:end of the internet

[tweek]

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.

Onion Get It Right

[Foobar of Borg]

Actually, the sad thing is that the Onion tends to predict things more accurately than the pundits. I mean, they even predicted how the Bush presidency would go back when it began. For instance, this article from January 17, 2001. Perhaps William Kristolnacht should write for the Onion and let some of the Onion people write serious news.