aaronburro Sup, B 52901 Posts user info edit post |
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/10/15/illinois-governor-candidate-whitney-listed-as-whitey-on-some-b/
just about shat myself when I saw that story. I was like "oh, whatever, they misspelled a random guy's name, who gives a fuck." Then I saw that they called him "whitey" and I started giggling, cause I saw just how much it might fuck him over
it's sad that the average electorate is so stupid that such a distinction would actually hurt a candidate
[Edited on October 15, 2010 at 9:21 PM. Reason : ] 10/15/2010 9:21:19 PM |
lewisje All American 9196 Posts user info edit post |
imma vote fo' Rich Whitey 10/15/2010 9:22:30 PM |
Supplanter supple anteater 21831 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "Rich Whitney's name is misspelled on some touch-screen electronic voting machines on the review screens -- where voters check their choices after making initial selections" |
Oh no, how are they going to print enough new screens in time for election day?10/15/2010 9:23:21 PM |
lewisje All American 9196 Posts user info edit post |
I think the issue is that it takes so long to sign off on any changes that if they wanted to change the screen it would take until after the election 10/15/2010 9:34:09 PM |
aaronburro Sup, B 52901 Posts user info edit post |
i mean, I know there are a lot of machines, ok. There a lot of computers in this country, and yet microsoft still manages to patches out to a lot of them routinely. It's two weeks to the election. The machines should be in a central location in at least each county. Pass out the fucking thumbdrives and update that shit! If you've got a voting machine system that can't reliably be updated in two weeks when all of the machines are centrally located across several regions, then your machine shouldn't be used. period. end of story.
[Edited on October 15, 2010 at 10:55 PM. Reason : ] 10/15/2010 10:54:56 PM |
lewisje All American 9196 Posts user info edit post |
blame bureaucracy, not technology
I mean if your vision of how the world works held, IE6 would be a distant memory by now, what with all the computers running XP and later that can run IE8 and the world would be a better place 10/15/2010 11:06:16 PM |
merbig Suspended 13178 Posts user info edit post |
10/15/2010 11:07:47 PM |
AstralAdvent All American 9999 Posts user info edit post |
leave whitey alone
I'm AstralAdvent and i approved this message. 10/16/2010 12:57:09 AM |
moron All American 34039 Posts user info edit post |
They guy running against O’Donnel is named “Coons” which mildy amuses me. 10/16/2010 1:21:21 AM |
lewisje All American 9196 Posts user info edit post |
just imagine the headline from WND: "In Delaware, Blacks Vote for Coons" 10/16/2010 1:27:36 AM |