Comments on: How to rig an election http://robotlibrarian.billdueber.com/how-to-rig-an-election/ Disclaimer: I'm not actually a robot. Thu, 08 Jul 2010 20:37:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Ross http://robotlibrarian.billdueber.com/how-to-rig-an-election/comment-page-1/#comment-20 Ross Tue, 04 Nov 2008 02:44:35 +0000 http://robotlibrarian.billdueber.com/?p=20#comment-20 <p>Interestingly, the very first time I tried to vote ('92), I was subject to your first example (Voter non-registration). My dorm senator never got around to sending in the registration forms and eventually lost them. By no means do I think this was an intentional attempt at suppression (the guy was a friend of mine, after all), jut the carelessness of college kids.</p> <p>Perhaps the bitterness of that experience sowed the seed that eventually grew into the Code4lib Diebold-o-tron: influential, hastily written and possibly bug ridden.</p> Interestingly, the very first time I tried to vote (‘92), I was subject to your first example (Voter non-registration). My dorm senator never got around to sending in the registration forms and eventually lost them. By no means do I think this was an intentional attempt at suppression (the guy was a friend of mine, after all), jut the carelessness of college kids.

Perhaps the bitterness of that experience sowed the seed that eventually grew into the Code4lib Diebold-o-tron: influential, hastily written and possibly bug ridden.

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