NationStates Jolt Archive


More Diebold voting machine shennanigans. My head hurts.

Intestinal fluids
25-01-2007, 13:35
I dont normally post blogs as a news source but this seems real enough.

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4066#more-4066

This company needs to be destroyed with the same vengence as an Al Queda sleeper cell and the ashes need to be stomped on by registered voters.
The Infinite Dunes
25-01-2007, 13:45
I think the fact that used a lock that can picked in 10 seconds is probably more shocking.
New Burmesia
25-01-2007, 14:47
Well, we in the UK don't fuss over what constitutes as an 'X' in a box, so we don't need shitty machines at all.;)
Babelistan
25-01-2007, 14:54
bah humbug! These machines are.... bleh! (I'm really constructive right now yes?)
Andaluciae
25-01-2007, 14:57
Eh, all I know is that is not the same key, nor the same machine, that were involved in the certification of the voting machines for Stark County. Instead, the machines used in Stark had a round key.
Boonytopia
25-01-2007, 15:49
Make your mark on your ballot paper with a pencil, then there will be no need for these silly voting machines.
Ifreann
25-01-2007, 15:59
Not only it the pen mightier than the sword, it's mightier than the shitty touch screen voting machine.
Diebold=fail.
Boonytopia
25-01-2007, 16:17
The pen is mightier than the shitty touch screen voting machine.

That's a phrase that will resonate throughout the ages. :)
Ifreann
25-01-2007, 16:20
That's a phrase that will resonate throughout the ages. :)

As will many things I say.
Demented Hamsters
25-01-2007, 16:33
Normally I don't take much stock with conspiracy theories, but this one:

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10432334/was_the_2004_election_stolen

is extremely interesting, and relates to the diebold machines.
IDF
25-01-2007, 19:06
Normally I don't take much stock with conspiracy theories, but this one:

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10432334/was_the_2004_election_stolen

is extremely interesting, and relates to the diebold machines.

We discussed the article a while ago. Outside of a few whackos, the concensus was that RFK Jr. is a whiner who can't take a loss.
Smunkeeville
25-01-2007, 19:10
Make your mark on your ballot paper with a pencil, then there will be no need for these silly voting machines.

my state has had the same machines since I was a child, they work like those standardized test graders, we use a marker and complete the arrow that points to who we want to vote for, the machine scans it in.....we don't seem to have problems

I think people are trying to make everything harder than it needs to be.

http://www.tonyrogers.com/humor/images/arrow_ballot.gif
Dosuun
25-01-2007, 19:18
The elections were rigged! 9/11 was a setup to divert attention away from the rigged elections and excuse starting a never ending war for oil! Saddam was a humanitarian saint! Bush is a retard! Bush is the evil genius behind the secret world government!
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y113/paulbubel/tinfoil-hat.jpg
Here's your tinfoil hat. Elections are not so easily rigged. He won because at the time of the elections more people were fed up with the opposition than they were with him. The dems lost in 2000 and 2004. Get over it.
Utracia
25-01-2007, 19:22
I dont normally post blogs as a news source but this seems real enough.

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4066#more-4066

This company needs to be destroyed with the same vengence as an Al Queda sleeper cell and the ashes need to be stomped on by registered voters.

It is always nice to dream but clearly it will be just that: a dream. Ensuring fair voting isn't something people seem to be interested in. Why else would this company still be contracted to make these machines for unsuspecting and uncaring, apathetic voters?