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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. And this isn't in idle...why? by Volante3192 · · Score: 5, Insightful

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

    1. Re:And this isn't in idle...why? by pembo13 · · Score: 4, Insightful

      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.

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  2. Since when was this Digg? by Stuart+Gibson · · Score: 3, Insightful

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

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    1. Re:Since when was this Digg? by ultranova · · Score: 4, Insightful

      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.

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  3. Re:It's asinine to post Onion satire as news here by justkeeper · · Score: 5, Insightful

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

  4. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  5. Funny excerpt by guruevi · · Score: 4, Insightful

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

    Best quote, ever, and true as well.

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  6. Re:end of the internet by bigstrat2003 · · Score: 4, Insightful
    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.

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  7. Re:end of the internet by orclevegam · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.
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  8. Re:end of the internet by DirtyHerring · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

  9. THIS JUST IN by Gay+for+Linux · · Score: 4, Insightful

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

    1. Re:THIS JUST IN by Toonol · · Score: 3, Insightful

      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.

  10. Re:end of the internet by mhall119 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How are sites slashdotted when nobody reads TFAs? Prefetch?
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  11. Re:wrong but that does not matter by pla · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.