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Michelle
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posted 26 February 2008 06:14 AM

Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early

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Albireo
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posted 26 February 2008 07:10 AM

Ha! I love how everybody (voters, journalists, politicians and the Diebold guy) just takes vote-rigging as a given, while the real issue is around the leak as a "spoiler". And how the production values look *exactly* like the network news shows.

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Boom Boom
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posted 26 February 2008 07:52 AM

Are Diebold vote-rigging machines being used again? Didn't the country (USA) learn anything?

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Noise
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posted 26 February 2008 07:56 AM

Gotta love the onion

I'm not sure if Diebold going to be used in '08... I've seen alot of backlash against them, but I'm not sure if anything materialized. There was a petition for paper records for all votes going around at one point.

(and Diebold accidentally leaks... (Boom Boom)) is kinda funny

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Boom Boom
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Babbler # 7791

posted 26 February 2008 08:44 AM

Just saw this on another list from a friend in Virginia - she used a Diebold to vote in the primaries: she touched the block for Obama -
and the machine registered it as a touch for Bill Richardson, the fifth block down. She noticed right away, and was able to correct it.

So, there are still problems. Will that call into question the entire election, regardless of who is proclaimed the winner?

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saga
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posted 26 February 2008 10:25 AM

Is this a joke?

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Michelle
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posted 26 February 2008 10:34 AM

Hee. That's the best compliment you can pay to satire!

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rural - Francesca
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Babbler # 14858

posted 26 February 2008 04:36 PM

conversations at my house

This time with the son, who only pays attention to news when it impacts the Leafs or NASCAR.

So I start the video, he's standing over my shoulder.

son: can they do this?
mom: do what?
son: do this!
mom: it's a spoof based on a conspiracy theory
son: what theory?
mom: the one that election results are predetermined
son: ohhhhhhhh so this isn't real?
mom: uh no
son: it's not really funny
mom: you just aren't paying attention
son: are you done with the computer?

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viigan
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Babbler # 14131

posted 27 February 2008 07:34 AM

Conspiracy or not, elections increasingly feel like a form of entertainment and distraction. If only for the fact that there are no real choices between parties and candidates who, when in power, fall in line with whatever the previous agenda happened to be. Even if Obama is elected in the US, I very much doubt we will see an end to the war. Likewise, if the NDP miraculously trip into power in Canada, I don't think there will be any significant changes, especially when it comes to our role as America's Mini-Me.

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Fleabitn
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Babbler # 14927

posted 27 February 2008 02:11 PM

Rather disingenuous to post this as "news" and serves only to degrade the rest of the legitimate stories here.
The OP/mod should know better, but it would seem she has a quota to fill.

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Wilf Day
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Babbler # 3276

posted 27 February 2008 07:00 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Fleabitn:
Rather disingenuous to post this as "news" . . .

(a) A babbler with no sense of humour? Who let him/her in?

(b) The forum is titled "international news and politics."

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Fleabitn
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Babbler # 14927

posted 28 February 2008 01:24 PM

a) Oh, I have a bucket of guffaws around here somewhere. Admitedly, my larf factor has been down since the HarperCons seized control.

b) pardon my edit: "Rather disingenuous to post this as "news" and/or "politics".

Perhaps satire deserves its own section.

Stolen elections are nothing to joke about, nothing has changed with diebold since 2000. There seemed to be "irregularities" in this primary season, largely ignored by MSM. Call me an old fashioned non-mathematician, but I'd like every vote counted, not an election being decided on the basis of statistical sampling, or other more nefarious practices of the Supremes.

c) Curious usage note. I'll stick with #1 "not straightforward or candid"

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BetterRed
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Babbler # 11865

posted 28 February 2008 02:44 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Fleabitn:
Rather disingenuous to post this as "news" and serves only to degrade the rest of the legitimate stories here.
The OP/mod should know better, but it would seem she has a quota to fill.

I swear, that got me fooled!
u know why?
The onion news symbol looks like al-jazeera, i think. i thought this was a real report, umm for a few seconds

I need to attend a scepticism class...

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kropotkin1951
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posted 28 February 2008 03:06 PM

Gee I thought it was meant to look like CNN. The logo is similar.

So since when is babble a "serious" only site. Maybe the name is a clue to how serious it is.

Sorry just babbling again.

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