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

end of the internet

[Fusen]

Wow, embedding a flash movie directly on slashdot. Considering 90% don't RTFA this is going to be the worst /.ing that's ever happened!

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.

Re:end of the internet

[v1k]

Adobe.

Re:end of the internet

[kalirion]

No-Script works well enough for me.

Re:end of the internet

[TheVelvetFlamebait]

I had hopped that we were still a fairly literate group of people

Yeah, I had hopped over that hurdle two.

OK, sorry guys, that was just lame...

Re:end of the internet

[Vicarius]

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. I would prefer a transcript of a video, than watching a silent show. Yes, I'm like most of you wasting my time at work and don't want to be caught by enabling audio on my workstation.

Re:end of the internet

[mhall119]

How are sites slashdotted when nobody reads TFAs? Prefetch?

Re:end of the internet

[mhall119]

I swear, some people miss no opportunity to smugly mention their ad-blocker. What smug comment? Oh, that's right, I don't see them because I use the Smug-Block extension.

Re:end of the internet

[veganboyjosh]

I don't own a single television.

I own three.

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.

Re:end of the internet

[KillerBob]

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.

Re:end of the internet

[Imsdal]

I'm not so sure that's the case when Diebold is invlved.

Re:end of the internet

[unitron]

Yeah, I had hopped over that hurdle two.

How'd you do with hurdles one and three?

Re:end of the internet

[wvmarle]

I don't own a single television. Same for me. Mine is married.

Wouter.

Re:end of the internet

[SeaFox]

I just use my landlord's.

You know she prefers you call her mom like you did when you were little.

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.

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?

[LarsWestergren]

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.

Re:Since when was this Digg?

[crossmr]

Ron paul 2008!!! digg me down haters!!!

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.

It's not who votes that count

[caluml]

http://satirica.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/stalin_voting.jpg
It's not who votes that count - it's who counts the votes. - Josef Stalin

With apologies to the poor soul whose server I've linked to. :)

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

[geekoid]

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

Really, there not king, they need other people to agree on things,. have two parties not liking you gets exactly nothing done. Granted, getting nothing done would have made the last 7 year much better.

Of course the media screwed Edwards. I didn't want him to win, but the media just ignored him and tried to makes it a Race/Woman thing. frankly I applaud both candidates for not rising to that bait.

Re:wrong but that does not matter

[0p7imu5_P2im3]

Don't give up your vote just because the Republicrats limit you to two bad candidates. Men fought and died to get you that vote. Leaving a ballot blank is the modern day equivalent of burning the US flag.

If you really want to show them who's boss, and prove that they cannot limit your vote, vote for a third party that offers a candidate that is closer to your values than the Republicrats. I'm not a Libertarian shill, but the Libertarians are a freedom-based compromise between the Republicrats. Personally, I was really hoping Ron Paul would run third party or independent, but that football team mentality of "my party first, the country second" runs deep. And there's also Nader, but don't vote for him unless he has enough states such that he could possibly win (same goes for the Libertarians, but they usually get enough states).

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.

Mod points with nowhere to go

[kenj0418]

I have mod points today -- but unfortunately theres no way to mod-down a submitter.

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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Before I saw the 'Onion' tags...

[martinQblank]

...I had a brief moment where I seriously considered that it could, in fact, be true. Hmmm.

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

[geminidomino]

Guess we know who woke-and-boke this morning. In the future, hit the bong after you've posted to /. for the day. Says the guy who actually just used the 'word' "boke"

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.

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:The Onion on /.?

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Obama's support base goes asymtotic

[caywen]

I have finally devised the complex equation of Obama's increasing support, and I found that though his support is skyrocketing in Texas, it becomes asymtotic at around March 4. On that day around 2:42pm, his support goes to infinity and will form a black hole that will kill us all. Support Hillary before it's too late.

Re:Samzenpus is an idiot for posting this. !news

[Taevin]

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."

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.

Re:Samzenpus is an idiot for posting this. !news

[Chris Burke]

Do you have instructions for removing the cattle prod? Because I laugh a lot, and those shocks fucking hurt!