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Re:How to Rig Elections [video] by FergusArgyll on Thursday August 14, 2025 @05:08PM (#44905714)
Borked was the original
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Re:How to Rig Elections [video] by robterrell on Thursday August 14, 2025 @05:32PM (#44905952)
This is the correct answer. More memorable and better number of syllables. Although I'm sure he wasn't the first either.
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Re:How to Rig Elections [video] by edoceo on Thursday August 14, 2025 @08:23PM (#44907304)
TIL; I'd always used it for broken/stopped working but I looked it up - neat!

> Origin 1980s: from the name of Robert Bork (1927–2012), an American judge whose nomination to the Supreme Court (1987) was rejected following unfavorable publicity for his allegedly extreme views.

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