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Statistician Sues Election Official over Voting Machine Anomalies

posted by mrcoolbp on Friday April 24 2015, @11:50PM   Printer-friendly
from the never-trusted-those-things-anyways dept.

MsgHack writes:

From the Wichita Eagle:

A Wichita State University mathematician sued the top Kansas election official Wednesday, seeking paper tapes from electronic voting machines in an effort to explain statistical anomalies favoring Republicans in counts coming from large precincts across the country.

Wichita Eagle's coverage

 
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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by kaszz on Saturday April 25 2015, @12:53AM

    by kaszz (4211) on Saturday April 25 2015, @12:53AM (#174906) Journal

    If US elections are being tampered with in a way that makes a real difference. Then the state is in effect a dictatorship.

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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by Mr Big in the Pants on Saturday April 25 2015, @01:02AM

    by Mr Big in the Pants (4956) on Saturday April 25 2015, @01:02AM (#174908)

    Not really. Nor is it a fascist state, police state or any of the other things that get thrown about. It might be *int the future* but not now.

    It is a captured democracy in that there is a democratic process but this has been subverted so that there is very little difference in overall policy in relation to the outcome of the elections and this policy tends to agree with the elite rather than the majority.

    And it does not require this voting fraud for that to be so right now. That is just good ol' corruption and has been around in various forms since the outside of the USA.

    IOW: The pretence of democracy.

    In a dictatorship there is no pretence...

    • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 25 2015, @06:39AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 25 2015, @06:39AM (#174990)

      Gotta love this endless hair splitting... and legal wanking around.

      US is democratic like Russia or North fucking Korea.

      • (Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday April 25 2015, @03:18PM

        by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Saturday April 25 2015, @03:18PM (#175072) Journal
        Please stop the idiotic Godwining of this thread. The Nazis aren't the only ultimate bad guys out there who get abused every time someone complains. And we're splitting a very wide hair here, miles wide. Sneaky electoral fraud is nothing like the hell that the USSR or North Korea or Nazi Germany or the Khymer Rouge or the Decepticons. Sure, it's reasonable to expect that things can get worse, if the US doesn't deal with it. So I propose let's fight it rather than whine about how the US is turning into the new Mordor on the Potomac.

        • (Score: 1, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 25 2015, @05:12PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 25 2015, @05:12PM (#175103)

          US is democratic like Russia or North fucking Korea.

          Please stop the idiotic Godwining of this thread. The Nazis aren't the only ultimate bad guys out there who get abused every time someone complains.

          I didn't know the Nazis were from Russia or North Korea. That's news to me.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 25 2015, @10:38PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 25 2015, @10:38PM (#175183)

            Well if you watched FOX news you'd know that.

          • (Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday April 25 2015, @11:29PM

            by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Saturday April 25 2015, @11:29PM (#175194) Journal

            I didn't know the Nazis were from Russia or North Korea.

            Reading comprehension would help you here. I wasn't claiming the Nazis were from Russia or North Korea. I was pointing out that Godwin's observation extends to all the pointless comparisons to the ultimate bad guys of the day.

      • (Score: 2) by Mr Big in the Pants on Sunday April 26 2015, @02:24AM

        by Mr Big in the Pants (4956) on Sunday April 26 2015, @02:24AM (#175230)

        It is not hair splitting. I am right and you are so very wrong.

        Simple as that.

        You do a disservice to all those millions of people who have suffered under those forms of government by comparing the *relatively* (i.e. compared to the most evil) benevolent government you have to the fascist states that have existed.

        Meh. I am wasting my bytes here...I am sure there is no convincing you.

        Discussion over.