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Azerbaijan Election Results Released Before Voting Had Even Started

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday October 9, 2013 @03:01PM from the and-the-winner-is dept.

Jah-Wren Ryel writes "Florida's hanging chads ain't going nothing on Azerbaijan. Fully a day before the polls were to open, election results were accidentally released via an official smartphone app, confirming what everybody already knew — the election was rigged from the beginning. The official story is that the app's developer had mistakenly sent out the 2008 election results as part of a test. But that's a bit flimsy, given that the released totals show the candidates from this week, not from 2008."

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i swear baby this has never happened before! by fightinfilipino · 2013-10-09 15:13 · Score: 5, Funny

"oh dear, i seem to have premature electorate all over my caucus!"
Re:Cryptographically signed elections? by ThatAblaze · 2013-10-09 15:21 · Score: 5, Funny

This comment has been modded up to (Score: 5)
BooYAhhh! by bugs2squash · 2013-10-09 15:24 · Score: 5, Funny

Diebold deliver under budget and ahead of schedule...

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Nullius in verba
Just unprofessional. by Anonymous Coward · 2013-10-09 15:35 · Score: 5, Funny

This is what makes me proud to be an American, at least we know how to properly rig an election.
Re:Cryptographically signed elections? by Thanshin · 2013-10-09 18:16 · Score: 5, Funny

Further proof that we need the mod option "Prophetic".
As I've been repeating since at least 2014.
The Onion by AlienSexist · 2013-10-09 18:18 · Score: 5, Funny

The Onion had done a spoof of this before. The summary reads so much like the script I had to double check that it wasn't April Fools.