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Voting machines, can they get more questionable?

03-10-2008 03:15AM

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amacachi

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Yes http://www.news8.net/news/stories/1008/558138.html

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#2 03-10-2008 03:52AM

lostexpectation

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"You mean if I'm rubbing my shoes on the way to vote, I'm going to upset the entire voting process in the District of Columbia and then the nation

lol

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#3 03-10-2008 03:56AM

Overheal

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Yeahhhhhhh............static electricity accounts for 1500 votes.

*cough*

I'm insisting on a paper ballot.

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#4 03-10-2008 10:51AM

Alun

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Sounds dodgy to me. I'm guessing that there's more than just a handful of numbers on these cartridges indicating the number of votes cast per candidate, and that there's some kind of record of each individual vote with time stamps and such, so the chances of a random flash of static electricity suddenly creating 1500 valid votes seems a little far fetched to me.

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