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Diebold Admits Ohio Machines May Lose Votes
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Premier Election Solutions (a subsidiary of Diebold) has acknowledged a flaw that causes the systems to lose votes. It cannot be patched before the election and the machines are used in half of Ohio's counties, but they are issuing guidelines for avoiding the problem that presumably contain a work-around. While Diebold initially blamed anti-virus software for the glitch, they have now discovered that the bug was their own fault for not recording votes to memory when the cards are uploaded in 'certain circumstances' — something their initial analysis missed. It would be nice to hope that Ohio poll workers would be tech-savvy enough to make this a non-issue, but they had poll worker shortages last year and might need tech-savvy people to volunteer."
Get over it folks! It will only drop votes for Democrats. So clearly this is an isolated bug.
See my journal for slashdot ID's by year. Mine created in 2005. http://slashdot.org/journal/289875/slashdot-ids-by-year
Turns out Diebold accidentally leaked a snippet of their C# source code that shows the conditions that the machines may fail to register votes:
if(vote.Party == "Democrat" && democratvotes % 3)
democratvotes++;
Oopsie!
I'm a big tall mofo.
Don't blame me, I voted for a';DROP TABLE users; SELECT * FROM data WHERE name LIKE '%.
Ohio already had its chance to be Florida back in 2004. Those two states need to stop hogging the spotlight and let a lesser-known state be Florida for once. I nominate New Mexico.
Want to really help? "Accidentally" run over the crate of voting machines, or allow it to fall off a bridge into a deep river. Do democracy a favor and destroy these abominations, you tech-savvy butterfingers!
Ahem... before the election.
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
They've thought of that, but no one could figure out what to do when "Mickey Mouse" won the Presidency, so the idea was abandoned.
Hey, I said it was a snippet that was leaked!
Don't blame me - I actually took 5 minutes to write up a whole function only to discover the stupid Slashdot filter won't let you post source code (Use less funny characters it tells you).
So I had to greatly (and I mean greatly) abbreviate the joke. Now that I've explained it, I'm sure it's 100x funnier.
This new comment system is really messing with my head. I need to sign off now. Can we go back to Slashdot 2005?
I'm a big tall mofo.
Your Mickey Mouse is one big stupid dope!
Only on Slashdot would you not only get a joke written in C#, but also multiple replies complaining that it's not technically sound.
Just lie and pick a party. By lying, you are in fact following the principles of either party. Problem solved!
Actually, I was thinking tech-savvy volunteers would be more tempted to fix the elections when Diebold machines are used.
What do you mean by fix ?
I can just see it now, a miracle happens and Barr (L) wins the Presidency!
I thought they had staff dedicated to this, like the CEO.
When the axe came to the forest, the trees said, "Look out - the handle was once one of us."
To go back to the 2005 /. layout.
The majority of the local population here voted for the current version.
Oddly though, just shy of 2/3rds of /. users didn't vote...
-Rick
"Most people in the U.S. wouldn't know they live in a tyrannical state if it walked up and grabbed their junk." - MyFirs
That was one of the links in the summary....
In the what?
http://www.mhall119.com
Obviously they extend copyright 4 more years.
I'm disabling ads until because I choose not to reward redesigns that are less usable than "view source".
While Diebold initially blamed anti-virus software for the glitch, they have now discovered that the bug was their own fault for not recording votes to memory when the cards are uploaded in 'certain circumstances'
"Certain circumstances" -- a.k.a "voting"
But in that case, Schwarzenegger would have gotten 5th place in the 2003 CA recall elections, behind Swarzeneggar, Bustemante, Shwarzenegger, and Bustamante.
Please mod parent up.
Civil disobedience is where we need to be now, to prevent us bleeding-heart liberals from needing to learn how to care for small arms.
"All these years believing you're the signified monkey, only to find out you're just a big hunk of nobody cares."
What happens when you try to introduce a 3rd party?
And the ACLU would have a field day with it, being an effective poll tax. Won't anyone think of the illiterates?
On Slashdot C# is the joke.
Justice is the sheep getting arrested while an impartial judge declares the vote void.
That C# is legible enough, even by non-coders (the modulus might throw people, but they'd still get the general idea). The real test would be if the joke was written in perl.
How are sites slashdotted when nobody reads TFAs?
Yeah, we just keep waiting, waiting for things to get worse. And they do. And nothing happens. So we wait longer- and things do get worse.. But it gets worse a little at a time, and we keep procastinating. We need to revolt before it's too late..
Believe me, I'm already revolting.
There's a 68.71% chance you're right.
Yeah, we just keep waiting, waiting for things to get worse. And they do. And nothing happens. So we wait longer- and things do get worse.. But it gets worse a little at a time, and we keep procastinating. We need to revolt before it's too late..
Believe me, I'm already revolting.
So I have heard.
Sorry, teleporters just kill you and then make a copy. A perfect, soul-less copy.