The Perfect Crime
I really try to sheer away from political topics, especially one the verge of elections. However, I just had an amusing insight.
If you were a democratic candidate in a close race in a jurisdiction using Diebold machines, why wouldn't you hack them for your advantage? I mean, really, after all the ink spilled both real and virtual, the precedent has been set that if someone is going to hack the machines, it was going to be the GOP. With the current conventional wisdom you wouldn't even be questioned.
"Us? Hack the vote? Hell, we still use AOL!"
Ironically, I believe that anyone that thinks that their pet candidate would never do such a thing (whatever their party affiliation) should be disenfranchised.
No, not for being an AOL user, it's ten years too late for that.
If you were a democratic candidate in a close race in a jurisdiction using Diebold machines, why wouldn't you hack them for your advantage? I mean, really, after all the ink spilled both real and virtual, the precedent has been set that if someone is going to hack the machines, it was going to be the GOP. With the current conventional wisdom you wouldn't even be questioned.
"Us? Hack the vote? Hell, we still use AOL!"
Ironically, I believe that anyone that thinks that their pet candidate would never do such a thing (whatever their party affiliation) should be disenfranchised.
No, not for being an AOL user, it's ten years too late for that.
Posted by Nathaniel Trost on
Monday November 6, 2006 at 2:28pm
Supposedly some of the democratic blogs have been making the accusation that republicans might hack the machines to return results wildly in favor of the democrats. The theory is that the republicans could then challenge the election and present proof of irregularities. My head spins. No word on whether Roswell or Elvis are involved.
Politics aren't any fun this season, anyway.
We're creating new social programs (hello, drug bill), still ignoring Social Security, attacking business with monstrosities like Sarbanes-Oxley, and halfheartedly prosecuting a war because we're afraid to even name the enemy.
Without a principled leader like Gingrich - or a Hastert to a lesser degree - the current majority isn't very useful. While the two parties act so similarly, what does a vote buy?