Hack the Vote?
November 9, 2004 7:27 AM Subscribe
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This is a serious issue, but come on. If nothing else, this could've been added onto the thread two down on the front page.
posted by soyjoy at 7:54 AM on November 9, 2004
posted by soyjoy at 7:54 AM on November 9, 2004
" Your week is almost up ;)"
You wish. This isn't going away. Maybe you think there should be a time limit on complaining about things like suppression of minority votes, but luckily honest to goodness decent and sane real American people don't. (Loaded enough for you? Learned that from the right-wing).
And your link? The writer is a disingenuous cumwad from the very first sentence:
"John Kerry lost, and there is a lot of sadness going around. But let's face it. It seems he wasn't the man for the job at this time..."
Uh huh, as if George Bush is. Well, maybe that's because I assume that "the job" wasn't "fucking things up".
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posted by Reverend Mykeru at 8:00 AM on November 9, 2004
You wish. This isn't going away. Maybe you think there should be a time limit on complaining about things like suppression of minority votes, but luckily honest to goodness decent and sane real American people don't. (Loaded enough for you? Learned that from the right-wing).
And your link? The writer is a disingenuous cumwad from the very first sentence:
"John Kerry lost, and there is a lot of sadness going around. But let's face it. It seems he wasn't the man for the job at this time..."
Uh huh, as if George Bush is. Well, maybe that's because I assume that "the job" wasn't "fucking things up".
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posted by Reverend Mykeru at 8:00 AM on November 9, 2004
"If nothing else, this could've been added onto the thread two down on the front page."
the one about santa monica?
posted by luckyclone at 8:07 AM on November 9, 2004
the one about santa monica?
posted by luckyclone at 8:07 AM on November 9, 2004
No matter what anyone writes, there's always some contracting net anus who will complain because...they wouldn't express it that way, and that the bit doesn't have the sheer gravitas the critic craves....
Anuses abound.
posted by dhoyt at 8:10 AM on November 9, 2004
Anuses abound.
posted by dhoyt at 8:10 AM on November 9, 2004
Hack the Vote??
Maybe not
This table [pdf] is especially good at refuting the accusations.
posted by gyc at 8:16 AM on November 9, 2004
Maybe not
This table [pdf] is especially good at refuting the accusations.
posted by gyc at 8:16 AM on November 9, 2004
This table [pdf] is especially good at refuting the accusations.
No, but nice try. It looks only at a set of counties in question, not at the rest of the state (it ain't an experiment without a control, folks). It includes no information about type of voting machine, or history of voting machine type. It makes no statement about variance of margin, adding no insight beyond historical "victories" by county (which are, after all, utterly meaningless for any purpose than making America look redder than it is).
I'm not saying that the accusations have no refutation (personally, though I'm convinced of the potential for fraud using these machines and it makes me quite uneasy, I'm keeping an open mind about fraud this time around). I'm just saying this ain't it.
posted by Vetinari at 8:38 AM on November 9, 2004
No, but nice try. It looks only at a set of counties in question, not at the rest of the state (it ain't an experiment without a control, folks). It includes no information about type of voting machine, or history of voting machine type. It makes no statement about variance of margin, adding no insight beyond historical "victories" by county (which are, after all, utterly meaningless for any purpose than making America look redder than it is).
I'm not saying that the accusations have no refutation (personally, though I'm convinced of the potential for fraud using these machines and it makes me quite uneasy, I'm keeping an open mind about fraud this time around). I'm just saying this ain't it.
posted by Vetinari at 8:38 AM on November 9, 2004
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posted by dhoyt at 7:45 AM on November 9, 2004