FAITH-BASED VOTING MACHINES
As voters go to the polls to cut the legs out from beneath the ruling junta, millions of tiny pre-programmed chips will go to work for their master, Diebold Inc. In early voting trials, votes were lost, others not counted, and remarkably, chips were found with votes already inside -- factory installed as it were -- giving new meaning to the phrase, "Intel Inside."
And the vote tabulation "errors" were hardly random. They were caused by so-called "viruses," trojan horses looking for the right race to enter.
If your name was Walden O'Dell, chief executive of Diebold Inc.(active in the re-election effort of President Bush), and you wanted to skew a vote in your favor, you would not skew the overall error rate towards your desired outcome. You would allow your opponents' favorable "errors" to pop up in precincts where they are likely to win by sizeable margins, and program your own favorable mistakes to surface in closely contested regions. This way, the overall error rate appears random, when in fact, electronic gerrymandering has worked its wonders.
Creative re-districting has already heavily favored Republicans in many regions. Because of population demographics in densely populated areas, losing Democratic candidates have often received the majority of votes. Indeed, in some regions, Democrats must receive 5% more of the vote just to tie with their Republican opponents.
Add to this the fact that 2% more people on average vote for the first party listed on the ballot (in most states, either the Republicans, or the incumbent party) then it is easy to see the headwind faced by the Democrats this year.
40 percent of Americans will be voting on electronic voting machines today, and half of those machines leave no paper trail. Voters must take their information on faith because no backup system can recount the votes. I'm sure Diebold's chief, Mr. O'Dell, who promised to deliver Ohio to the president in '04, would never allow his machines to be used to tilt the outcome of elections -- again.
There is a solution. If everyone voting Democratic dyed his or her hair blue and stepped out onto the street at 11:00 am tomorrow (EST), then Google Earth could count all the blue dots by satellite and overlay them on a map of precincts.
It would be most fitting if the antidote to Diebold's "$5,000 Pencils" proved to be Reagan's "Star War" technology.
As voters go to the polls to cut the legs out from beneath the ruling junta, millions of tiny pre-programmed chips will go to work for their master, Diebold Inc. In early voting trials, votes were lost, others not counted, and remarkably, chips were found with votes already inside -- factory installed as it were -- giving new meaning to the phrase, "Intel Inside."
And the vote tabulation "errors" were hardly random. They were caused by so-called "viruses," trojan horses looking for the right race to enter.
If your name was Walden O'Dell, chief executive of Diebold Inc.(active in the re-election effort of President Bush), and you wanted to skew a vote in your favor, you would not skew the overall error rate towards your desired outcome. You would allow your opponents' favorable "errors" to pop up in precincts where they are likely to win by sizeable margins, and program your own favorable mistakes to surface in closely contested regions. This way, the overall error rate appears random, when in fact, electronic gerrymandering has worked its wonders.
Creative re-districting has already heavily favored Republicans in many regions. Because of population demographics in densely populated areas, losing Democratic candidates have often received the majority of votes. Indeed, in some regions, Democrats must receive 5% more of the vote just to tie with their Republican opponents.
Add to this the fact that 2% more people on average vote for the first party listed on the ballot (in most states, either the Republicans, or the incumbent party) then it is easy to see the headwind faced by the Democrats this year.
40 percent of Americans will be voting on electronic voting machines today, and half of those machines leave no paper trail. Voters must take their information on faith because no backup system can recount the votes. I'm sure Diebold's chief, Mr. O'Dell, who promised to deliver Ohio to the president in '04, would never allow his machines to be used to tilt the outcome of elections -- again.
There is a solution. If everyone voting Democratic dyed his or her hair blue and stepped out onto the street at 11:00 am tomorrow (EST), then Google Earth could count all the blue dots by satellite and overlay them on a map of precincts.
It would be most fitting if the antidote to Diebold's "$5,000 Pencils" proved to be Reagan's "Star War" technology.
posted by R. Reynolds at 10:11 AM
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CNN just reported that due to massive polling problems, today's vote will be a practice test.
The real vote will take place on Saturday November 11. Sort of a National Do-Over.
Tell all your friends.
Just as a levee cannot hold back a tidal wave, Diebold's machines cannot hold back a landslide. So go vote and tell your friends (as long as you know which lever they will pull) --USCE
By the way, Bilbo, anonymous 1 is right, today's vote is only practice. Stay home and relax today and go to the polls on 11/11. --USCE
When I got to the polls this morning they told me that New York has extended the voting one more day to accommodate the huge turnout. The procedure is that Republicans will vote today and Democrats will vote tomorrow. This should relieve the congestion.
I was reading PNN, when suddenly, A GIANT BEER CAN CAME CRASHING THROUGH THE ROOF AND CRUSHED ME!
If Republicans were voting today, there'd be no conjestion at the polls. The only one not too embarrassed to vote Red already voted this morning in Crawford.
just finished dying my hair blue. see y'all at 11.
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Republicans are already busy jamming Dem phone banks to sow confusion and thwart turnout. It's freaky watching the party of morals go about their dirty work.
I saw the virtuosity virtuoso, Bill Bennett, on TV and the wide- angle lens couldn't contain his morally massive self. What a sack of shit he is.
Dear Beer Crushed: At least it wasn't Merlot.
Diebold or not, W is going to get spanked today.
I found Osama bin Laden in my voting booth this morning.
His votes cancelled out mine.
Worse. It was Lite Beer!
Here we are in the thick of election night and PNN is dead quiet?
Merciful Heavens????
What is to become of us Auntie Em?
Tosca just fell for Scarpia's "fan" trick (dumb broad). I know I shouldn't have an electronic device here (Met Opera), but I knew that you guys couldn't wait for the news. Doesn't look like this is going to turn out well. They'll all wind up dead.
BTW: I loved her as Turandot, but her Tosca leaves much to be desired, IMHO. Waiting for her Vissi d'Arte.
Oh well... Va Tosca... it's Benediction.
Tosca... you make me forget God!
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