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gewg_ writes:
"In case you missed your previous opportunity to get a Diebold Accuvote voting machine so that you could practice manipulating the American electoral system, Brad Friedman reports that there are now ES&S (Elections Systems & Software) voting machines available on eBay for $499.99 or 'Best Offer.'"
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Cropp's Law:
The amount of work done varies inversly with the time spent in the
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(Score: 3, Informative) by NCommander on Friday March 21 2014, @08:55PM
We'll be making sure NOT to use these for any official site polls :-)
Still always moving
(Score: 1) by bob_super on Friday March 21 2014, @10:16PM
Don't worry, if you were to inadvertently find a flaw, they'd just DMCA you...
Question: given what we've learnt about the NSA since the last election, why go to the polls when we know they can choose the winner without bothering us? It used to be just a silly conspiracy theory in the previous elections...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 21 2014, @11:20PM
On a slightly different tangent, Brad advises folks to register for an absentee ballot and walk that ballot into the meatspace voting place.
(Mailed-in ballots are the easiest to "lose".)
You're still subject to the vicissitudes of the poll workers and optical scanning equipment, but, in most places in the USA, it's the least-vulnerable way to cast a ballot.
--gewg_
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Sunday March 23 2014, @03:17AM
That's how I've voted for decades, if only because I can't remember to mail the durn thing. Hand-delivery does guarantee it at least got into the system, if nothing else.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.