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Can Static Electricity Generate Votes?
artgeeq writes "A recent local election in Washington, DC resulted in 1500 extra votes for a candidate. The board of elections is now claiming that static electricity caused the malfunction. Is this even remotely possible? If so, couldn't an election be invalidated pretty easily?"
Is static electricity smarter than the average, uninformed voter?
If each mistake being made is a new one, then progress is being made.
The Carpeted Man wins the general election by a whopping 6.88x10^89 votes! It was surely a shrewd maneuver to choose a Van de Graaff generator as his running mate!
This is one for the record books, folks.
Now that's charge I can believe in!
If I am elected, all charges will be positive.
Ladies and gentlemen, my opponent wants to take away your electrons! If you value your molecular bonds - and what true patriot doesn't? - you will vote against these anti-electronist policies!
I'm tired of all this damn negativity in politics nowadays.
Let's not let this go negative now....
As the third party candidate, I'd just like to say that I'm completely grounded and I won't charge you AT ALL. Those other candidates say that a vote for me is throwing your vote away, but I say they cause Washington to be so polarized that nothing will get done.
Sure they talk about delivering a path of least resistance, but I think there is a path which will save us from charge and discharge alike.
(Also those other two guys support Islamist free radicals, and decreasing the capacitance of the middle class)
I'm the Thane of Lochaber and I support this message
You have no ground!
This story has potential!
I stole this sig from someone cleverer than me.
You don't find it at all shocking, do you?
APK quotes people (including myself) without context and should not be trusted. Just thought you should know.
oh my god, i've just suffered a pun overload.
You have my volt !