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Re:The Shadow Inc. app that failed in Iowa last night by allovernow on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @07:26PM (#22242728)
Is it really difficult to believe that a group of people in charge of something may be biased?

Calling it a "conspiracy" theory is just dismissive slander at this point. People have conspired successfully to achieve far greater and more malicious goals.

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Re:The Shadow Inc. app that failed in Iowa last night by hcknwscommenter on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @07:38PM (#22242843)
That would be an awful lot of work for such a tiny gain. And it doesn't scale. AT ALL. What moron would go to the trouble? Iowa picks corn, not presidents.
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Re:The Shadow Inc. app that failed in Iowa last night by allovernow on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @08:46PM (#22243247)
What hard work? How many devs do you have to pay off to write a handful of lines of code manipulating a secret ballot, especially when they may be willing because of personal bias? We know electronic voting in its current implementation is severely vulnerable to tampering, both external and internal.
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Re:The Shadow Inc. app that failed in Iowa last night by asdff on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @12:05AM (#22244190)
Good thing Iowa used paper ballots then. This was a tally tool, not a voting tool, luckily.

I think Georgia might be the most notorious for the behavior you describe.

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Re:The Shadow Inc. app that failed in Iowa last night by allovernow on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @12:47AM (#22244339)
>I think Georgia might be the most notorious for the behavior you describe.

I don't know if you're baiting me but personally I don't think corruption is limited to Democrats. Particularly if both sides start to believe the other is secretly cheating.

It feels like the American system works when a critical majority are playing with good faith - and that good faith is increasingly lacking.

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Re:The Shadow Inc. app that failed in Iowa last night by nl on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @08:06PM (#22243031)
Calling it a "conspiracy" theory is just dismissive slander at this point.

Aren't you literally proposing that there is a conspiracy? And since there is no evidence then isn't that a theory?

What do you think it should be called? "conspiracy speculation"/"conspiracy hypothesis"/"possibility of a conspiracy"?

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