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Hacking Democracy (the political version)
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Nov 6, 2006, 08:45 PM
 
HBO SPECIAL Hacking Democracy - Google Video

Anyone see this? Especially the last hour of the show with the videotaping of Diebold's response to not being able to change votes on a memory card and denying that there's an executable; then that German Chris Farley guy wrote a program, put it on the memory card, then they ran the test ballots.

Originally it was 2 to 6, in favor of Nos. When the card printed the results, it was 7 to 1, in favor of Yeses. When they ran the memory card in the actual tallying program "Gems," it also failed to find any anomalies and reported the same 7 to 1 count.

Even if the switching of memory cards was a little far fetched, the fact that Diebold was just flat out lying their pants off was scary enough.

Just so the Democrats don't get all uppity, in the first hour you see how spineless Kerry was. He knew about the election problems and put on a big show about it. Then did nothing.
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Nov 6, 2006, 09:28 PM
 
Kerry didn't do anything b/c there wasn't anything to do. Except put on a tinfoil hat and cry about things.
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Nov 6, 2006, 09:33 PM
 
This is a non-partisan issue as far as I'm concerned. This same documentary explored how in some states the Diebold machine problems worked in the Democrat's favor.

Watch the documentary and let us know what you think before weighing in here, please...
     
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Nov 6, 2006, 10:38 PM
 
i watched it yesterday...scary

you know that blackboxvoting.org has part of the gems source code online?

if kerry knew then shame on him...but shame on the diebold ceo for writing that he supported bush

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Nov 6, 2006, 11:12 PM
 
Originally Posted by finboy View Post
Kerry didn't do anything b/c there wasn't anything to do. Except put on a tinfoil hat and cry about things.
I'm guessing you didn't even watch it, otherwise you'd 've realize how stupid a comment that was.
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