A device that records the choices of voters in an election. It can take several forms:
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1. A mechanical device, where the voter flips small levers next to the candidates' names to indicate their choices, then pulls a big lever to record the votes. Considered very difficult to hack.
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2. A direct-recording electronic (DRE) machine. May print vote totals on paper, but there is no way for a voter to verify that his/her votes were accurately recorded. Unlike mechanical voting machines, DRE machines are extremely vulnerable to fraud and malware that can steal a percentage of votes, reassigning them to the rigged candidate.
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3. An electronic machine that lets the voter make choices, then PRINTS AN ACTUAL FILLED-OUT PAPER BALLOT, which the voter can review and either discard (and start over) or cast. THE PAPER BALLOT IS THE OFFICIAL RECORD OF THE VOTE.
Ballots can be quickly counted by optical scanning technology. (Voters could also choose to fill in a blank ballot by hand.) Importantly, ballots can be RECOUNTED, by hand if necessary.
Counts from the voting machines need not be trusted as anything more than quick estimates or "exit polls". This scheme makes it difficult to commit the large-scale fraud so easy to do invisibly with paperless DRE machines.
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1. A mechanical device, where the voter flips small levers next to the candidates' names to indicate their choices, then pulls a big lever to record the votes. Considered very difficult to hack.
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2. A direct-recording electronic (DRE) machine. May print vote totals on paper, but there is no way for a voter to verify that his/her votes were accurately recorded. Unlike mechanical voting machines, DRE machines are extremely vulnerable to fraud and malware that can steal a percentage of votes, reassigning them to the rigged candidate.
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3. An electronic machine that lets the voter make choices, then PRINTS AN ACTUAL FILLED-OUT PAPER BALLOT, which the voter can review and either discard (and start over) or cast. THE PAPER BALLOT IS THE OFFICIAL RECORD OF THE VOTE.
Ballots can be quickly counted by optical scanning technology. (Voters could also choose to fill in a blank ballot by hand.) Importantly, ballots can be RECOUNTED, by hand if necessary.
Counts from the voting machines need not be trusted as anything more than quick estimates or "exit polls". This scheme makes it difficult to commit the large-scale fraud so easy to do invisibly with paperless DRE machines.
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A number of Diebold electronic voting machines have been in the news, first for criminally incompetent software and database design, leaving vote records wide open to undetectable tampering, more recently for vulnerability to "computer virus" style malware that can spread from machine to machine through the data cards used to collect voting data.
Making such electronic voting machines widespread is the perfect way to lay the groundwork for large-scale, invisible voter fraud.
There's plenty of information on this on the Web. A good place to start: the Coalition for Voting Integrity, www.coalitionforvotingintegrity.org .
Making such electronic voting machines widespread is the perfect way to lay the groundwork for large-scale, invisible voter fraud.
There's plenty of information on this on the Web. A good place to start: the Coalition for Voting Integrity, www.coalitionforvotingintegrity.org .
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Function: Noun
1: One that fires a machine gun.
2: A person that tends to spray things.
3: The MOS for a machine gunner in the USMC is an 0331.
4: Somebody that uses fuck loads when only a dab is needed.
5: Anybody that does not believe in precision firing.
Function: Noun
1: One that fires a machine gun.
2: A person that tends to spray things.
3: The MOS for a machine gunner in the USMC is an 0331.
4: Somebody that uses fuck loads when only a dab is needed.
5: Anybody that does not believe in precision firing.
1: When Bob was in the military, he was a machine gunner
2: Watch out when you talk to Kathy, she's a machine gunner
3: Johnny was an 0331 in the Suck!
4: Gordie squeezed the mustard bottle so hard that he shot everybody. Carson exclaimed, "Dude you're a regular machine gunner ain't ya?"
5: Johnny comes home drunk and sprays the toilet with a huge drunk piss. Joe, looking at the urine all over the floor, exclaimed, "Holy dog shit Johnny, I knew you were an 0331 machine gunner in the Corps, but don't you think that you could have at least hit the shitter?" Johnny smiles and says, "I gave it a full belt!"
2: Watch out when you talk to Kathy, she's a machine gunner
3: Johnny was an 0331 in the Suck!
4: Gordie squeezed the mustard bottle so hard that he shot everybody. Carson exclaimed, "Dude you're a regular machine gunner ain't ya?"
5: Johnny comes home drunk and sprays the toilet with a huge drunk piss. Joe, looking at the urine all over the floor, exclaimed, "Holy dog shit Johnny, I knew you were an 0331 machine gunner in the Corps, but don't you think that you could have at least hit the shitter?" Johnny smiles and says, "I gave it a full belt!"
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Usually describing a device for male use, wanking machines have been in use since the late second century BC. Archimedes} is thought to have designed a water-powered machine which he used to pleasure himself. Later examples have been found in medieval Arabia, where Suliman the Magnificent ownde one of the first horse-powered devices on record.
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Usually describing a device for male use, wanking machines have been in use since the late second century BC. Archimedes} is thought to have designed a water-powered machine which he used to pleasure himself. Later examples have been found in medieval Arabia, where Suliman the Magnificent ownde one of the first horse-powered devices on record.
With the coming of the Industrial Revolution the Wanking Machine became a far more powerful contraption. Stevenson designed a steam-powered device that could auto-masturbate several gentlemen at one time. Emily Pankurst struck a blow for womens rights when she had the first electric dildo installed in her home. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was involved in a near disaster when the great Wanking Machine at Kew Gardens exploded and killed several users and injuring many bystanders. In modern times Wanking Machines have become smaller and more reliable, making use of advanced electronics to control rythym, pace, roll and grip.
Would you like to come round to my house next Saturday and try out my new Wanking Machine? It has 3 speed settings and an auto-wipe facility!
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2) Bush and Cheney employed a massive marketing machine to sell the Iraqi war to the public, promote ongoing fear from 9/11, and shrunk the gap in the separation of church and state in order to get re-elected despite a disasterous 1st term in office.
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