[crouton] Nathaniel Trost: The Perfect Crime

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Posted by Nathaniel Trost:
The Perfect Crime
http://crouton.powerblogs.com/archives/archive_2006_11_05-2006_11_11.shtml#1162852102


   I really try to sheer away from political topics, especially one the
   verge of elections. However, I just had an amusing insight.
   If you were a democratic candidate in a close race in a jurisdiction
   using Diebold machines, why wouldn't you hack them for your advantage?
   I mean, really, after all the ink spilled both real and virtual, the
   precedent has been set that if someone is going to hack the machines,
   it was going to be the GOP. With the current conventional wisdom you
   wouldn't even be questioned.
   "Us? Hack the vote? Hell, we still use AOL!"
   Ironically, I believe that anyone that thinks that their pet candidate
   would never do such a thing (whatever their party affiliation) should
   be disenfranchised.
   No, not for being an AOL user, it's ten years too late for that.