Posts by ChrisPBacon 3 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Nov 2016
Years ago in the state of Pennsylvania, a fellow by the name of (I believe) Nick Perry weighted the ping-pong balls of the state lottery, rigging that system so a predetermined number would come up. His error that aroused suspicion and ultimately led to his discovery and prosecution was the number he played - 666. Yeah.
America was one of the earliest adopters of electronic voting systems, in part due to the fiasco of the 2000 presidential election that saw lawsuits over partially punched paper ballots.
>> Not entirely true. Electronic voting was implemented much earlier. Concerns over the ability to manipulate the machines was poo-pooed as the conspiratorial drivel of tin-foil hat ilk. That is, until there was an election result that the $shadowy_group didn't appreciate.
While there has never been definitive proof of election machine hacking...
>> Simply a false statement. There proof aplenty of manipulated machines. Philadelphia is the poster child for election hacking, including delivery of voting machines to polling stations that already contained votes for $guess_which_party candidates.
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