Diebold Leaks 2008 Election Results

samzenpus writes "With all the scrutiny that Diebold has received in past few years you'd think that they would be more careful but apparently due to a malfunction in some machines, they have leaked the results to the 2008 presidential race early. Hopefully this will be the nail in Diebold's coffin. Surely we have another company in this country that can run a sham election better."

end of the internet

[Fusen (841730)]

Wow, embedding a flash movie directly on slashdot. Considering 90% don't RTFA this is going to be the worst /.ing that's ever happened!

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[Firehed (942385)]

Must I append "WTFVITS"* to my sig?

*watch the effing video in the summary, of course.

Re:end of the internet

[mhall119 (1035984)]

How are sites slashdotted when nobody reads TFAs?

Prefetch?

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[PReDiToR (687141)]

Oh, that greyed out box with the NoScript logo is a Flash movie?
Glad it got caught by NoScript [noscript.net] rather than FlashBlock [mozdev.org]!
Yet, I wonder. Would AdBlock Plus [adblockplus.org] have caught it if those two were disabled?

Re:end of the internet

[bigstrat2003 (1058574)]

Or, not. Cause, you know, it's not an ad. And it doesn't auto-play, so it's not hurting anyone.

I swear, some people miss no opportunity to smugly mention their ad-blocker.

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[orclevegam (940336)]

I swear, some people miss no opportunity to smugly mention their ad-blocker.

I don't use an ad-blocker, I use a flash-blocker. The fact that it sometimes catches ads is just a bonus.

Re:end of the internet

[kalirion (728907)]

No-Script works well enough for me.

Re:end of the internet

[mhall119 (1035984)]

I swear, some people miss no opportunity to smugly mention their ad-blocker.

What smug comment? Oh, that's right, I don't see them because I use the Smug-Block extension.

Re:end of the internet

[veganboyjosh (896761)]

I don't own a single television.

I own three.

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[wvmarle (1070040)]

I don't own a single television.

Same for me. Mine is married.

Wouter.

Re:end of the internet

[SeaFox (739806)]

I just use my landlord's.

You know she prefers you call her mom like you did when you were little.

Re:end of the internet

[DirtyHerring (635192)]

They don't allow Flash here at work. It is a bummer....keeps us out of other sites too.

Where do you work? Smart decision makers there.

Re:end of the internet

[v1k (958019)]

Adobe.

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[tweek (18111)]

Not sure if you're being sarcastic or not but from a pure time wasting and proactive security standpoint, it makes perfect sense. I can't think of one site that uses flash for something that is actually productive or necessary to most core business functions. Sounds like an easy way to block the myriad video sites that pop up left and right.

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[KillerBob (217953)]

Not sure if you're being sarcastic or not but from a pure time wasting and proactive security standpoint, it makes perfect sense. I can't think of one site that uses flash for something that is actually productive or necessary to most core business functions. Sounds like an easy way to block the myriad video sites that pop up left and right.

Been to http://www.dell.com/ [dell.com] lately? Or any other vendor, for that matter? Sure, the site can be done without flash... but in a business where people make buying decisio

Re:end of the internet

[TheVelvetFlamebait (986083)]

I had hopped that we were still a fairly literate group of people

Yeah, I had hopped over that hurdle two.

OK, sorry guys, that was just lame...

Re:end of the internet

[unitron (5733)]

Yeah, I had hopped over that hurdle two.

How'd you do with hurdles one and three?

Re:end of the internet

[Imsdal (930595)]

I'm not so sure that's the case when Diebold is invlved.

And this isn't in idle...why?

[Volante3192 (953645)]

Funny, probably, but does it really belong in what's supposed to be a serious section?

Re:And this isn't in idle...why?

[pembo13 (770295)]

I think we would first have to argue if Politics (at least this specific form of politics) can really be considered serious in the first place.

Since when was this Digg?

[Stuart Gibson (544632)]

I didn't realise /. had started posting links to things the submitter happened to find amusing today.

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[djupedal (584558)]

./ has successfully climbed out of the social toilet and firmly landed in business sector muck - how common.

Re:Since when was this Digg?

[LarsWestergren (9033)]

I didn't realise /. had started posting links to things the submitter happened to find amusing today.

Then you honestly can't have been here very long. The foot icon appears at least a couple of times a week on the frontpage and indicates a "funny" story submission. If it displeases you, you can filter away these stories in your preferences.

Re:Since when was this Digg?

[crossmr (957846)]

Ron paul 2008!!! digg me down haters!!!

Re:Since when was this Digg?

[ultranova (717540)]

every other post calling America a fascist police state.

Yeah, it annoys me too. America is not a fascist police state; America is a plutocratic police state. The difference is that under fascism, economy booms, while under plutocracy, economy goes kaboom.

It's not who votes that count

[caluml (551744)]

http://satirica.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/stalin_voting.jpg [satirica.net]
It's not who votes that count - it's who counts the votes. - Josef Stalin

With apologies to the poor soul whose server I've linked to. :)

Samzenpus is an idiot for posting this. !news

[mw13068 (834804)]

This is not news, it doesn't matter, it's not /.

Start spamming /. with this stupid shit at your own risk.

Re:Samzenpus is an idiot for posting this. !news

[Taevin (850923)]

Instructions for those who have a anti-humour cattle prod stuck up their ass:

1. Click the Help & Preferences link at the top of the page.
2. Click on the Sections link under the Index subsection of the Your Preferences section.
3. Select the Never radio button for the Entertainment category.
4. Click the Save button.

Congratulations, you have successfully filtered humour from your life. No longer will your boring life be terrorized by "this stupid shit."

Re:Samzenpus is an idiot for posting this. !news

[Chris Burke (6130)]

Do you have instructions for removing the cattle prod? Because I laugh a lot, and those shocks fucking hurt!

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[geekoid (135745)]

If Samzenpus viewed that, an actually thought it was a real news item then they should be immediatly banned from the internet..hell, anything with a computer.

It does belong on /., but under humor because it was pretty damn funny.

LOL... So with 9 months to go...

[by Anonymous Coward]

The dems are already preparing an excuse just in case the improbable happens and they actually manage to lose this presidential election. The sad part is that a lot of people will believe in it.

wrong but that does not matter

[dario_moreno (263767)]

This time the media (not Diebold) are going to have an apparently nice democrat elected, since Bush went a little too far but it should be obvious that once again it won't make any notable difference. Kucinich, Paul or Nader would have, but this would be against so many interests....

Re:wrong but that does not matter

[geekoid (135745)]

Do you really think those guys would have made a difference?

Really, there not king, they need other people to agree on things,. have two parties not liking you gets exactly nothing done. Granted, getting nothing done would have made the last 7 year much better.

Of course the media screwed Edwards. I didn't want him to win, but the media just ignored him and tried to makes it a Race/Woman thing. frankly I applaud both candidates for not rising to that bait.

Re:wrong but that does not matter

[pla (258480)]

Do you really think those guys would have made a difference?

In eight years, one man in that office took us from having a strong economy and reasonably decent foreign relations, to the pariah of the world with an economy so weak even the CANADIAN dollar beats our own.

So yeah, the right person in that office could certainly go a long way toward improving things. Not to say I consider any of the named people that impressive (I liked RP, but don't know that he would have had the cooperation to even start to undo Bush's damage), but as proof of concept, you have to concede the point.

Mod points with nowhere to go

[kenj0418 (230916)]

I have mod points today -- but unfortunately theres no way to mod-down a submitter.

Well, now that The Onion is being cited...

[rickb928 (945187)]

/. is pretty flushed down the toilet.

Secretly, I'm proud of the Onion gang. They succeed at being seen as legit, relevant, newsworthy, true (!), and just plain really neato. The best TV news is still the Jon Stewart stuff. Life goes on.

Glad also to see someone else gets duped. I haven't been taken by The Onion ever, but the Washington Post has caught me a few times...

And since when has it been a wast of OUR time to revel in the delightful agony of a fellow /.'r getting completely fooled, or fooling us i

This is a bit early...

[Wolfger (96957)]

...for April Fool's. So much for any pretense Slashdot had of being "news".

Are we digg now?

[thePowerOfGrayskull (905905)]

Seriously, if I wanted embedded videos about non-tech subjects, that would be my first stop...

Fark

[_14k4 (5085)]

When did this site become fark? This was on _that_ page yesterday, and to top it off, did not involve an embedded flash movie.

That's two posts in one day that have those flash movies in them. One of the reasons I read /. is because there is little network traffic during the visit. I suppose that's not very true anymore, unless I go to the text only theme.

Funny excerpt

[guruevi (827432)]

"This country is based on the fantasy that the government is the voice of the people"

Best quote, ever, and true as well.

THIS JUST IN

[Gay for Linux (942545)]

BREAKING NEWS STORY: Comments posted on a slashdot thread earlier today indicate its readers are a bunch of humorless, whiny fags.

Re:THIS JUST IN

[Toonol (1057698)]

Exactly. I'm a bit disappointed in my fellow Slashdot participants today. This is an obvious joke; Slashdot is not CNN, they can post jokes occasionally. That's a good thing. The flash video doesn't load and play automatically, so it's not a significant waste of bandwidth. If you are insulted at the mere suggestion of flash... well, you get insulted too easily.

Onion Get It Right

[Foobar of Borg (690622)]

Actually, the sad thing is that the Onion tends to predict things more accurately than the pundits. I mean, they even predicted how the Bush presidency would go back when it began. For instance, this article from January 17, 2001 [theonion.com]. Perhaps William Kristolnacht should write for the Onion and let some of the Onion people write serious news.

Re:It's asinine to post Onion satire as news here

[justkeeper (1139245)]

You're on slashdot so your time can be wasted.

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[spiffyman (949476)]

Most people dont pay attention, and simply believe what is fed to them. Like samzenpus.

There, fixed that for you.

Re:It's asinine to post Onion satire as news here

[geminidomino (614729)]

Guess we know who woke-and-boke this morning. In the future, hit the bong after you've posted to /. for the day.

Says the guy who actually just used the 'word' "boke"

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[Firehed (942385)]

= = = = = = = = =
Mods please note: This is simply an exercise to determine how to lower karma - if you're just looking to burn points, don't bother wasting them...there are better alternatives than making my day, thanks.

Translation: "My karma is teetering on the brink of going negative. Don't mod me down, bro!"

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[Jazon Bladen (938809)]

... And MSNBC and CBS will take this news seriously and have a Breaking News story about it, condemning Diebold and demanding that their corporate assets immediately be seized and all contracts immediately anulled and terminated.

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[BridgeBum (11413)]

Congratulations, you duplicated the link in the article.

Re:The Onion on /.?

[by Anonymous Coward]

Take a look at the "topic" icon - that foot thingy? If you hold the mouse over it for a second or two, it'll give you a secret message about the reason the article was posted.