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

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!

Re:end of the internet

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.

Re:end of the internet

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

No-Script works well enough for me.

Re:end of the internet

I don't own a single television.

I own three.

Re:end of the internet

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

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

Adobe.

Re:end of the internet

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

How are sites slashdotted when nobody reads TFAs?

Prefetch?

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

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

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

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.

It's not who votes that count

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. :)

Funny excerpt

"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

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

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.

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

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

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

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"

Re:wrong but that does not matter

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

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.

Re:Since when was this Digg?

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?

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

Re:Since when was this Digg?

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.

Re:The Onion on /.?

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.

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

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."