PC World Geektech: "Hackers elect Futurama's Bender to the Washington DC school board"
Electronic voting has earned a pretty bad reputation for being insecure and completely unreliable. Well, get ready to add another entry to e-voting's list of woes.I can relate to Bender because he's just like me...awesome in every way.
One Bender Bending Rodríguez was elected to the 2010 school board in Washington DC. A team of hackers from the University of Michigan got Bender elected as a write-in candidate who stole every vote from the real candidates. Bender, of course, is a cartoon character from the TV series Futurama.
This was not some nefarious attack from a group of rogue hackers: The DC school board actually dared hackers to crack its new Web-based absentee voting system four days ahead of the real election. University of Michigan professor Alexander Halderman, along with two graduate students, did the deed within a few hours.
Plus, I can get behind his political position of "A Poppler in every pot."
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None of the liberals who talk about Bush using electronic voting machines to steal the election in 2000 and 2004 talk about Obama using the same machines to steal the 2008 and 2012 elections. I guess the goose sauce isn't good for the gander. Must be the identity politics.
Yeah, must be. Oh, which sitting chief executive of an electronic voting machine company raised funds for the Democrats while saying that he was "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to Obama"? Because if you flip the parties and the Presidents, that's what the head of Diebold did in 2004.
You should also alert us when the chairman of the largest maker of these machines (ES&S) gets elected to the U.S. Senate as a Democrat. The political reverse happened in 2006.
Correction: 1996.
Snore.
Facts put me to sleep. I go by my churning, paranoid gut.
So what you're saying is that those machines which liberals say were used to steal the votes in 2000 and 2004 suddenly grew a conscience and was completely honest that Obama won in the 2008 and 2012 elections? I guess that must be why they elected Mr. Rodriguez. That and they liked his "hey sexy mama, wanna kill all humans?" platform.
Dfwmtx, "Terminator" was just a movie. The voting machines did not become self-aware.
If you want to push a false equivalency after your team loses an election, you kind of have to wait until Democrats are in charge of voting machine security.
Alt+Ctrl+Del,
So if Rs are in charge of electronic voting security, why'd they let a D get elected? I don't buy the currently accepted theory, which seems to be "there was just so many votes for Obama they couldn't hide the truth". As a great progressive of the 20th century said, "It's not the votes counted, it's who counts the votes." (paraphrase). Unless Obama is secretly a Republican, I have a hard time believing Republics who can hack voting machines would let a Democrat be elected. It leads me to thinking that the machines weren't hacked in favor of Bush back in 2000 and 2004. That's what I'm saying without my being facetious with the self-aware voting machines bit.
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