In December, officials began backing up the data daily, to help avoid similar data wipeouts in the future

Daily. Well, how technically-astute of them.

I backup this website every *three hours*. They're dealing with state-wide election data.

I say their IT people need a good reaming.

Once the whole country uses these beauts, we're in the shit. What's that? You're complaining about us driving a tank through your front door? But you guys voted away with the Constitution remember? Paper Ballots? Muwhahhahahahaha!

'Last month, state officials said the touchscreen systems used by 11 counties had a bug that would make a manual recount impossible'

Scary!

If Florida fucks us over again and we end up with Bush for another four years, I'm going to try to raise a revolution to force Florida out of the union. Give the fucking place to Cuba.

Between this and the earlier Diebold machine scandal, it makes you wonder if they're not planning this.

There will be riots in the streets and the entire state Florida will be under siege for months after the election in November is fucked up again and the Supreme Court shits out four more years of GWB. Eventually all of the old people will migrate back up north to the cold arctic tundra�s so they can continue shopping at Wal-Mart.

I submitted this but I think cube deleted it when he went on that deleting binge today.

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Between this and the earlier Diebold machine scandal, it makes you wonder if they're not planning this.

Remember whose brother is the governor of Florida, kids. Think it's a coincidence that, out of 50 states, Florida happens to the the one where they pull this shit?

'Dats how we dun do it in da Souf, Boah! If'n y'all don' like it, go back up Nof, ca'petbagga'!"

sexninja: i'm wondering why more people don't register cross-party and vote for the shittiest candidate in the primaries.

Sort of like how the GOP is pushing/financing to get nader on the ballots in swing states?

They aren't smart enough or don't care enough. Or, they still believe that elections in this country are being run properly, despite all the evidence to the contrary, so why fight fire with fire?

I don't think Nader will really have an effect on this election. I thought he would when he announced his intentions to run, but now I'm not so sure.

KMart_Fetus: Well, I prefer to avoid jumping to conclusions, but it is pretty obvious. More so when you consider that Bush appointed Katharine Harris to further rig the system by blacklisting the black voters (and some felons), without really bothering to discern who was who.

Just read where the primaries were already tainted and the results aren't recoverable. Way to go, Diebold!