Re:Edward Snowden Demonstrates How Easy It Is to Hack a Voti...
by HarryHirsch on Thursday November 24, 2016 @03:50PM
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Mail-in ballots are the devil, they allow vote-buying. It happens with regularity that elections are annulled in ethnic enclaves in the UK over that. Elections don't have to be convenient, first of all they have to be safe.
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Re:Edward Snowden Demonstrates How Easy It Is to Hack a Voti...
by rounce on Friday November 25, 2016 @12:28AM
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I find it curious that you don't think this also happens in middle-England Tory stronghold constituencies, or certain middle-class London Labour ones for that matter.
Re:Edward Snowden Demonstrates How Easy It Is to Hack a Voti...
by mavhc on Thursday November 24, 2016 @04:12PM
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Which elections were annulled?
Re:Edward Snowden Demonstrates How Easy It Is to Hack a Voti...
by joncrocks on Thursday November 24, 2016 @04:25PM
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There was a fairly well publicised incident in Tower Hamlets (part of London) where a local mayoral election was declared void for reasons including "Voting fraud: ballots were double-cast or cast from false addresses" [1]
[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-32428648
Was this guy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutfur_Rahman_(politician)#Fal...
Re:Edward Snowden Demonstrates How Easy It Is to Hack a Voti...
by HarryHirsch on Thursday November 24, 2016 @04:44PM
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The one I was thinking about was probably this one from Bradford: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2010/sep/06/men-jailed-...
Re:Edward Snowden Demonstrates How Easy It Is to Hack a Voti...
by rounce on Friday November 25, 2016 @12:29AM
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The whole Luftur Rahman BS is (I think) more to do with the fact that he's a totally dodgy c&nt (as are quite possibly some of his close associates - juicy 'gossip' in Private Eye), not his ethnic or religious background.
The long line of DodgyC&nts™ at TH has yet to be broken, even going back to "The-Good-Old-Days".
Re:Edward Snowden Demonstrates How Easy It Is to Hack a Voti...
by jacobush on Monday November 28, 2016 @05:51AM
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Haha, keeping with tradition then. The conservative choice: a Dodgy C&nt. :)
Re:Edward Snowden Demonstrates How Easy It Is to Hack a Voti...
by strathmeyer on Thursday November 24, 2016 @04:00PM
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In America we prefer the Clinton "walking around money" type of vote buying?
Re:Edward Snowden Demonstrates How Easy It Is to Hack a Voti...
by nindalf on Thursday November 24, 2016 @04:16PM
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> In America we prefer the Clinton "walking around money" type of vote buying?
Is it just me or does this sentence not make sense?
Re:Edward Snowden Demonstrates How Easy It Is to Hack a Voti...
by BoorishBears on Thursday November 24, 2016 @05:28PM
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It kind of makes sense to me, I think the poster is trying to say Clinton buys votes but in a way we prefer/tolerate.
That way being "walking around money" in the sense of mingling with wealthy people at expensive events funded by other wealthy people in an attempt gain favor (and votes) from the people who can afford those events.
I think it's being purposely dramatic, but the English (kind of) adds up.
Re:Edward Snowden Demonstrates How Easy It Is to Hack a Voti...
by tedunangst on Thursday November 24, 2016 @09:32PM
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That's not walking around money.
Re:Edward Snowden Demonstrates How Easy It Is to Hack a Voti...
by jacobush on Monday November 28, 2016 @05:52AM
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Walking amongst money?
Re:Edward Snowden Demonstrates How Easy It Is to Hack a Voti...
by mwfunk on Thursday November 24, 2016 @05:06PM
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It doesn't, it sounds like something that a Markov chain would say. It sounds vaguely critical of Clinton, but doesn't quite parse as English and is devoid of actual information or analysis. I fear that Markov chains aren't just a way to replicate things that people might say, but might actually model human cognitive processes in some way. :(