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riqster

(13,986 posts)
5. Not a convincing rebuttal
Sun Nov 25, 2012, 01:40 PM
Nov 2012

If one were going to call someone out for being fact-challenged, the best way to do it would be to provide facts of one's own.

The blog states that the tabulation devices had illegal patches placed on them by the vendor: Fact: http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2012/4766

The blog states that the voting machines themselves are inaccurate, badly made, poorly maintained, not auditable, and not always handled in the prescribed manner: Fact: http://homepage.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/voting/congress.html

As to the basic premise of the difficulty of an outsider hacking recently-updated black-box code with the sure and certain knowledge that one would succeed and not be caught: ask anyone who has done it. Not happening. Yes, one COULD hack the code, but the most likely outcome would be to crash the system.

Got any facts of your own to contribute?

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