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posted by LaminatorX on Friday March 21 2014, @04:02PM   Printer-friendly
from the New-Name-Poll-Solution! dept.

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.'"

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 21 2014, @07:20PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 21 2014, @07:20PM (#19524)

    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

    by Reziac (2489) on Saturday March 22 2014, @11:17PM (#19872) Homepage

    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.