Virus In The Machine
Whaddaya know about that….
The computerized voting machines used by many voters in the 23rd district had a computer virus – tainting the results, not just from those machines known to have been infected, but casting doubt on the accuracy of counts retrieved from any of the machines.
Casting doubt, how can that be? The Democrat won.
Doug Hoffman, the Conservative candidate in this election says that he was forced to concede after having been given erroneous election results on Nov. 3rd, in particular from Oswego County. Oswego County’s election night results were off by over 1,000 votes. Hoffman claims that the “chaos” on which Oswego County chairs blame the errors and “inspectors who read numbers incorrectly when phoning in results… sounds like a tactic right from the ACORN playbook.”
One night every two years where inspectors get to put that public school education to work and they read numbers incorrectly. And as far as the virus thing goes, was it indeed a virus, or did the machines operate as programmed?
November 19th, 2009 at 7:06 pm
That’s what happens when you look up porn on the Internet when you’re supposed to be voting….
I believe that Electronic voting machines should exist purely for the purpose of printing out unimpeachably accurate paper ballots.
And they probably shouldn’t be based on Windows computers.
November 19th, 2009 at 7:12 pm
was it indeed a virus, or did the machines operate as programmed
The distinguishing factor is intent.
November 19th, 2009 at 7:18 pm
shouldn’t be based on Windows computers
It is just an operating system, a low-level piece of software, and nothing more. Using Linux or Mac would not guarantee a better, or more secure platform. Although, when Google produces their OS, we can rest assured that no bias will be present nor evident.
Regardless of the OS you choose, best practices in security are always prudent and necessary. The fact that Linux is open source, does not ensure quality.
November 19th, 2009 at 7:42 pm
A quick analysis of the code revealed a search/replace feature undetected due to lack of relevant anti-virus software. The code was written to search out 55% of all instances of (R) and replace with (D).
November 19th, 2009 at 9:21 pm
IT Nerd:
That would qualify as malicious intent with a vengeance.
November 20th, 2009 at 12:17 am
n.n. -
Precisely.
November 20th, 2009 at 7:38 am
IT Nerd:
are you suggesting this is what really happened?
Will Hoffman be able to do anything with this in court? This casts doubt upon every democrat…. in fact, I think Norm Coleman should ask for consideration even though the machines are probably wiped by now…… this is serious business folks….
November 20th, 2009 at 10:59 am
I guess I’m glad were so “backwards” here in Alabama that we still use paper ballots. The machines just scan and count. Of course, stuffing a ballot box works both physically as well as electronically.
November 20th, 2009 at 1:19 pm
Not to mention ACORN and their cast of Disney characters and the undead.