gewg_ writes:
"In case you missed your previous opportunity to get a Diebold Accuvote voting machine so that you could practice manipulating the American electoral system, Brad Friedman reports that there are now ES&S (Elections Systems & Software) voting machines available on eBay for $499.99 or 'Best Offer.'"
(Score: 2) by Boxzy on Friday March 21 2014, @04:26PM
Worthless crap, so, $1 (one) dollar.
Curiosity value minimal.
Go green, Go Soylent.
(Score: 2) by edIII on Friday March 21 2014, @06:47PM
What??
Plenty of value. Those bastards are like full kiosks. More than likely to have a 15" touchscreen interface, high quality enclosure, possible multiple other systems encased. Who knows whats actually running it under the hood.
This sounds like perfect material to start a MAME table top arcade cabinet with a touch screen menu interface.
Offer them 300 and I'm pretty sure you are getting a lot parts for your next project cheaply.
(Score: 2) by edIII on Friday March 21 2014, @06:49PM
Nevermind. I just saw the pics.
I would offer the $1 but that gets you two tacos.
(Score: 3, Informative) by NCommander on Friday March 21 2014, @04:55PM
We'll be making sure NOT to use these for any official site polls :-)
Still always moving
(Score: 1) by bob_super on Friday March 21 2014, @06:16PM
Don't worry, if you were to inadvertently find a flaw, they'd just DMCA you...
Question: given what we've learnt about the NSA since the last election, why go to the polls when we know they can choose the winner without bothering us? It used to be just a silly conspiracy theory in the previous elections...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 21 2014, @07:20PM
On a slightly different tangent, Brad advises folks to register for an absentee ballot and walk that ballot into the meatspace voting place.
(Mailed-in ballots are the easiest to "lose".)
You're still subject to the vicissitudes of the poll workers and optical scanning equipment, but, in most places in the USA, it's the least-vulnerable way to cast a ballot.
--gewg_
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Saturday March 22 2014, @11:17PM
That's how I've voted for decades, if only because I can't remember to mail the durn thing. Hand-delivery does guarantee it at least got into the system, if nothing else.
(Score: 1) by The Archon V2.0 on Friday March 21 2014, @11:04PM