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born incompetent, or do they get special training?

Story: The most important open source system: VotingTotal Replies: 6
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tuxchick

Sep 28, 2008
6:22 PM EDT 		For deity's sake, is there any simpler function for a modern computer than COUNTING?? As the article says, it's either incompetence or corruption. My vote goes to both.
ColonelPanik

Sep 28, 2008
9:10 PM EDT 		TC, Nobody is THAT dumb. Gotta be corruption.
tracyanne

Sep 28, 2008
9:23 PM EDT 		see also http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/108825/index.html
jezuch

Sep 29, 2008
2:04 AM EDT 		Unfortunately, TC, voting is not JUST counting...

But producers of voting machines are too incompetent and corrupt to do even that ;)
NoDough

Sep 30, 2008
12:33 PM EDT 		Never assign to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
gus3

Sep 30, 2008
12:42 PM EDT 		I'm with TC. It's stupidity, in that Diebold et al., and their government enablers, thought they could cavalierly replace a system with known problems, with another system, untested, bringing in a whole new set of known and unknown problems.

And it was malicious, in that they didn't care, as long as they got their $$$.
NoDough

Sep 30, 2008
1:46 PM EDT 		I worked for one of Diebold's companies for a couple of years. Trust me, the phrase fits.

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