Quote:An additional note speaking as somebody who grew up abroad the U.S. for most part is very loose about verifying the the identity of voters. If somebody wanted to steal an election there are older ways of doing so than hacking into a voting machine.
That is generally known as 'retail' vote fraud, a few votes here and there might swing an election, but the 'great' thing about the voting machines is that it allows wholesale vote fraud, for-instance diebold machines send all the data to a central machine that uses MS Accsess to tabulate the votes. At least one of the tabulating machines was infected with malware and had a backdoor. So instead of going through the trouble of compromising dozens of local election centers you can just attack one windows machine that is connected to the Internet and dictate what the election results for that state should be. Isn't Diebolds commitment to security wonderful?
Also if maryland actually followed it's own rules on the election machines the diebold machines would
a) Have undergone a rigorous third party audit. (Something diebold forbids in their eula)
b) not count the votes from the machines where the 'tamper-proof' stickers have been breached, so if you don't like the way a certain district votes you can just go there and when you are alone with the machine to cast your vote run your fingernail along the seam, supposedly disenfranchising everyone who used that machine. It's just as well that maryland ignores their own security rules, especially since the tamper proof stickers are anything but.
E: "Did they... did they just endorse the combination of the JSDF and US Army by showing them as two lesbian lolicons moving in together and holding hands and talking about how 'intimate' they were?"
B: "Have you forgotten so soon? They're phasing out Don't Ask, Don't Tell."