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Re:Computer Scientist Warns of Social Media Manipulation in ... by waterlesscloud on Friday October 26, 2012 @11:44AM (#4702674)
At first I thought this was worrying comment.

Then I saw this entire subthread was a brilliant meta-comment showing how spurious rumors are spread through social media.

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Re:Computer Scientist Warns of Social Media Manipulation in ... by amalag on Friday October 26, 2012 @02:38PM (#4703570)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/22/electronic-voting-m...

>On Nov. 6, polling places across Maryland will still use Diebold AccuVote touchscreen machines that don't produce paper ballots.

So the entire voting mechanism is handing off to Diebold without a possibility of an independent audit, but you think it's a "brilliant meta-comment" on "social media rumors".

Please see the links provided on that article including studies by Princeton where they say they could hack the Diebold machine in 1 minute.

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Re:Computer Scientist Warns of Social Media Manipulation in ... by cryptoz on Friday October 26, 2012 @11:50AM (#4702719)
Do you doubt that voting machine manipulation happens? Programmers of the machines have testified in Congress that they built rigged machines. Exit polls vary dramatically from vote counts almost exclusively when machines are used.

The very idea that 20% of votes are moved through closed-source machines run by Republican friends should be enough to make everyone assume that the votes cannot be trusted.

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Re:Computer Scientist Warns of Social Media Manipulation in ... by ryanhuff on Friday October 26, 2012 @11:54AM (#4702753)
If these people have testified in congress to this, then it must be public record. Please cite your source.
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Re:Computer Scientist Warns of Social Media Manipulation in ... by cryptoz on Friday October 26, 2012 @11:56AM (#4702767)
YouTube is full of them. I'm at work and can't check, but if you search for "diebold programmer rigging" I bet you'll find some.

This looks like it might be one of the ones I'm referencing, but as I said I cannot check 100% right now: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4aKOhbbK9E

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