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

imma vote fo' Rich Whitey

10/15/2010 9:22:30 PM

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"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

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

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

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

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"THERE A LOT"

10/15/2010 11:07:47 PM

leave whitey alone

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10/16/2010 12:57:09 AM

They guy running against O’Donnel is named “Coons” which mildy amuses me.

10/16/2010 1:21:21 AM

just imagine the headline from WND: "In Delaware, Blacks Vote for Coons"

10/16/2010 1:27:36 AM