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"A software error, not a cyberattack, caused a problem that resulted in nearly 120,000 voters being left off the printed voter rosters at Los Angeles County polling places in California's June primary, county officials said Wednesday.
An independent review by IBM Security Services concluded that the county's software to keep track of voters didn't recognize a change in the format for voter data provided by the state. As a result, the software discarded the birthdays for 118,509 voters, determined they were too young to vote and did not include them on the printed rosters used at polling places."
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(Score: 2, Funny) by Sulla on Thursday August 02 2018, @04:36PM (14 children)
Didn't IBM work for the NAZIS!, how can we be sure they aren't on Putin's payroll? Software error or software "error".
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 02 2018, @04:58PM (11 children)
(Score: 4, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday August 02 2018, @05:34PM (1 child)
Hey, you take that back! He's nowhere near as lazy as I am.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 3, Funny) by PartTimeZombie on Thursday August 02 2018, @09:16PM
You took the time to reply. I'm lazier than that even.
Oh, wait...
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 02 2018, @05:54PM
I dunno, not bothering with reaching down from the home row to type the Z in lazy is pretty lazy.
Are you questioning the Russian incel tinker-hacker-meddler-spy narrative? What are you, LITERAL HITLER? A QAnon anonops incel who hates women because he can't get laid?
Join the army today, son. We'll turn you into a real man. You won't be an incel for long after we deploy you to some third world shithole where we've saved the women there by bombing the shit out of their communities, so that they are reduced to selling you sex for lack of any other way to survive.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Thursday August 02 2018, @06:09PM (7 children)
That conservatives no longer care about election security is what's saying lots.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 02 2018, @06:19PM (6 children)
Conservatives are the ones against voter id and paper ballots?
(Score: 5, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Thursday August 02 2018, @07:17PM (5 children)
Conservatives are the ones against voter id and paper ballots?
They're opposed to paper ballots, yes.
Republicans reject funding for paper-based voting [cnet.com]
Opposition from Republicans and the White House has sparked defeat of a Democratic proposal to reimburse state election officials for converting their electronic voting machines to paper-based systems ahead of November's election.
(Score: 3, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday August 02 2018, @11:06PM (4 children)
That's Republicans not conservatives. There's as big a difference as there is between Democrats and liberals. Frankly though, you'll find neither conservatives nor liberals up on the hill. Mostly you'll just find power-hungry shit-birds parroting whatever will get them reelected and their remoras.
Oh, and you know how a lot of you are always accusing me of being this or that because I don't shit on the Republicans? That's because I generally only do it when someone's really working their ass off to fuck the people out of their rights, which Democrats do more often of late. This time though the Republicans need a good swift kick in the face. Normally I'd be like "Meh, states need to pay for their own shit. This is not a federal matter." but if it no-two-ways-about-it directly affects federal elections then the feds need to make sure it gets done. Mostly valid or blatantly hacked by muh Russians right on camera, SCOTUS isn't going to allow an entire state's worth of voting to go uncounted.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday August 03 2018, @12:19AM (3 children)
That's Republicans not conservatives. There's as big a difference as there is between Democrats and liberals.
When the Democrats do something anti-liberal, I criticize the Democrats.
When the Republicans do something anti-conservative, you defend the Republicans.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday August 03 2018, @01:32AM (2 children)
I think you're seeing what you want to see. I slap people down when their Trump Derangement Syndrome is acting up but why would I care if the Republicans do something anti-conservative? I'm not a conservative by any stretch of the imagination. I'm a liberal. You're a progressive. The two used to be the same but haven't been even similar for a long time now.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday August 03 2018, @02:19AM (1 child)
It's a bitch, isn't it? During our young lives, we were presented with reasons to be liberal, and reasons to be conservative. The two parties courted us as youngsters, each hoping to snare more voters. As we matured, each of us found reason to be liberal, or to be conservative, or in some cases, to be both, or neither, or something else entirely. And, of course, hordes of other people just "dropped out", never even bothering to register to vote.
Today, those same parties have abandoned their conservative and liberal positions, and each has become something else.
No one really knows what the two parties are today. Not even the die-hard Democrats or Republicans.
"I vote X because my daddy and my grand-daddy voted X" hardly seems a valid reason to vote.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday August 03 2018, @04:31AM
Oh, I could give you a few hundred accurate adjectives. Some interesting nouns as well.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Alfred on Thursday August 02 2018, @06:10PM
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Thursday August 02 2018, @07:37PM
You ever read a history book? Russians and Nazis don't go together at all.