http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/ Engadget Comments for Florida Diebold machines help you pick the right candidate http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/Oct 30th 2006 7:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/]]>Oct 30th 2006 7:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/Oct 30th 2006 9:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/
The whole thing is pretty sad, and it makes me wonder how long this sort of thing has been going on. How many people vote without looking end up accidentally voting for the wrong candidate?

On the flip side, this might increase voter turnout! More people will want to vote when they don't even have to do it themselves. Thank you for helping us make our lives one step easier, Diebold :)]]>Oct 30th 2006 8:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/
Yeah, no one but the most stupid ever believed that either. Still it's better than yours :p]]>Oct 30th 2006 8:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/
-SonyFanBoy]]>Oct 30th 2006 8:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/Oct 30th 2006 9:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/Oct 30th 2006 8:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/
Didn't we create the atomic bomb, put man on the moon, and map the human genome and stuff?]]>Oct 30th 2006 8:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/:P]]>Oct 31st 2006 7:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/Oct 31st 2006 11:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/Nov 2nd 2006 8:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/
You have to look at it two ways - 1) it's a right-wing conspiracy or 2) incompetence

Eitehr make the connection to a conspiracy, which I think Engadget wants badly to do, or call it like it is - the same stupid people who can't punch a chad are also incapable of poking a screen in the right place.]]>Oct 30th 2006 8:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/Oct 30th 2006 9:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/
This statement is typical of the high percentage of bigoted idiots in the U.S. that allow their elections to be stolen right from under their noses. No other country on the planet would allow such blatent election fraud to go unpunished. And you losers have been doing it for 6 years running now!

Wake up!!

You deserve the government you get. And what you Americans have is stealing your future and killing hundreds of thousands of innocent people in the process...]]>Nov 1st 2006 5:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/
I call BS. ]]>Oct 30th 2006 8:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/
Said it before, say it again...voting is a f'ing joke.

I'd rather have my name go on a list of people who refuse to participate in this f**king circus than vote for ANYONE.

That said, I will camp the f'ing line is McCain gets nominated, I will hump the diebold machine into submission if thats what it takes.

Give me someone worth my vote and I'll vote.

Death to diebold.]]>Oct 30th 2006 8:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/
You may dislike all the candidates, but I'm sure there are some you dislike more than the rest. The lesser of two evils?]]>Oct 30th 2006 8:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/Oct 31st 2006 7:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/Oct 30th 2006 8:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/Oct 30th 2006 8:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/
And "lesser of two evils"...never heard that one before.

You know what...its BS. Complete BS. If bush and kerry are the best we can do, and dont bring up libertarian or anything else, sadly its a two party system, anyone who thinks otherwise, and again this is part of why things dont work, is fooling themselves, but if thats the best we can do then we have a VERY big problem.

I refuse to put my name on a piece of paper and say "I want this person"...if I go to the auto mechanic and the only two people working are the receptionist and the janitor nobody is going to suggest I pick the lesser of the two evils.

Nobody is going to say "hay...surely one of them is better than the other, pick them"...oh, sure, one of them may be, but I'm sure as hell not going to authorize either one of them to touch my car.

One of them MAY suck less than the other (though which that might be is a complete mystery to me) but that doesnt make it ok. "well, kerry sucks, but hey, bush sucks to so at least its even right!"...sheesh.]]>Oct 30th 2006 8:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/Oct 30th 2006 9:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/
Even if one candidate is only ever-so-slightly less of a piece of shit than the other one in your mind, wouldn't it stand to reason that that slightly-better candidate should get the job instead of the other yay-hoo?

Yeah, they all suck. But since the process is going to go on with or without you, wouldn't you want the one that sucks LESS in power? If you don't want to participate, then shut the hell up.]]>Nov 2nd 2006 5:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/Oct 30th 2006 9:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/Oct 30th 2006 11:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/Oct 30th 2006 9:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/
You have to look at it two ways - 1) it's a right-wing conspiracy or 2) incompetence

Eitehr make the connection to a conspiracy, which I think Engadget wants badly to do, or call it like it is - the same stupid people who can't punch a chad are also incapable of poking a screen in the right place."

Well said Steve. The "mainstream media" (read: liberal) is putting out all of the voter fraud stories they can so if they lose, they will once again say it was stolen.]]>Oct 30th 2006 9:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/
The best part of it all is that as far as state policy is concerned, there isn't much difference between the D and the R. It's just a matter of personal profit. And the general american public is just a herd of sheeps that vote for the best show.]]>Oct 30th 2006 9:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/
If you don't believe the mainstream media is liberal, you should get help, because you clearly have no grasp on reality.]]>Oct 30th 2006 9:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/
First, to find the truth, simply follow the money.

Second, consider what the media actually is in an economic system like our own.

1- THE MEDIA IS A BUSINESS ENTERPRISE THAT GENERATES ALL REVENUES FROM THE SALE OF ADVERTISING.

2- ADVERTISING IS THE MOST IMPORTANT COMPONENT TO ALLOW THE SUCCESS OF A MASS PRODUCTION ECONOMIC MODEL.

3- MASS PRODUCTION REQUIRES MASS MARKETING IN ORDER TO SUCCEED..

4-Everything the media does is tuned to maximizing advertising revenue. No advertising, no profits.

NEWS AND ENTERTAINMENT CONTENT EXISTS PURELY TO DRAW A MARKETING AUDIENCE TO ALLOW CHARGING FEES FOR ADVERTISING, WHICH GENERATES THE INCOME FOR THE MEDIA. NO FEES, NO PROFITS.

As Mark Twain once said,”A journalist is simply a person that fills in the space between advertisments.”

Over 90% of the media in the USA is owned by very conservative Republican managed corporations....

General Electric/NBC (spent $1.1 million to reelect Bush),

Westinghouse/CBS (spent $900,000 to reelect Bush)

Disney/ABC (spent $640,000 to reelect Bush)

Time Warner/ AOL (spent $1.6 million to reelect Bush)

Fox News Corp/Fox Networks controlled by Rupert Murdock, who spent $2.9 million to reelect Bush through Phillip Morris Corp. (Rupert Murdoch: Board of Directors, Philip Morris (USA)

Just follow the money.

Cheers!
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Yeah, but that's a little different. ATM machines are used constantly, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.

Most of these machines are used at a maximum of two or three times a year (to test, update software, etc.), with an election every two or so years being the only time where they are put under heavy use.

Every touch screen I'veseen (be it on my DS, on a PDA, on a computer/ tablet PC) has been a lot better than that at staying calibrated.

So either the machines are rigged, or Diebold is ripping off our government by using cheap parts in their voting machines. Either way, I'm dissapointed in our Government.]]>Oct 30th 2006 9:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/Nov 2nd 2006 9:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/
Doesn't it?]]>Oct 30th 2006 10:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/
@ Eddie - if you think the mainstream media is liberal you either need a new grasp on reality, or your spectrum is as accurate as these machines and needs some recalibration. On a full range from completely conservative to completely liberal, the US media as well as most things in America fall to the right. Just because what you call liberal falls to the left of what you think, that doesn't make it liberal.

@ Alcaron - I used to think the same way as you and still do in a sense, I wouldn't want to give my stamp of approval to either candidate, but (if I may use your metaphor) ONE of them IS going to work on your car, whether you choose or not. So you might as well pick which one.]]>Oct 30th 2006 10:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/
To take that a step further: If you don't like that place of business, go somewhere else. (i.e. move to another country)

If elected, Kerry may or may not have been better, but keeping Bush as king (along with keeping his lackey congress) just gave him carte blanche to do whatever he wants.

We have a real chance this election to get some oversight into the abuses of this administration. When one party controls all three branches of government, it is ripe for corruption.]]>Oct 31st 2006 3:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/Oct 30th 2006 10:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/Oct 30th 2006 10:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/Oct 31st 2006 11:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/
How completely out of it can a person be?

Engadget doesn't "want badly" to make that connection - that connection was made long ago and is now just taken for common knowledge. Which it is, except of course to diehard Limbaugh Republicans with their heads stuck up their asses. It's not necessary to even point it out anymore - it's kind of like assuming you know that cigarettes cause cancer or that the Earth is getting warmer. Are you really so dense that you still need it spelled out for you?

Diebold's connections to Republicans are long-established and are fact, uncovered in part by a whistleblower who released reams of company emails to the public several years ago, as well as in campaign contributions and public statements from Diebold company officers (one of which promised to "deliver Ohio to the Republicans" in 2004) and factc uncovered in a lengthy public (and bipartisan) investigation by California several years ago. None of these facts are even in dispute - even by Diebold, who has only ever threatened to sue those responsible for release of the emails, but has never disputed their contents.

Get your heads out of the sand. Sheesh. I guess to a Republican, the only kind of cheating that matters is in matters of sex.
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Peak from under our rock!! What, so we can see how f*&$*# up this country has become because of dipshit Bush and his bunch of greedy self serving assholes at the helm?


What planet are you on? ]]>Oct 31st 2006 4:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/Oct 30th 2006 11:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/
The fact that one vote is wrong (3 times!) should be enough to convince people to get rid of these machines. How do election officials get away with this? Oh, that's right, they're "elected".

Man, what a disgrace.]]>Oct 31st 2006 12:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/Oct 31st 2006 2:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/Oct 31st 2006 7:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/Oct 31st 2006 4:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/30/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate/Oct 31st 2006 7:14AM