---- START NEW MESSAGE --- Received: from cherry.ease.lsoft.com [209.119.0.109] by dpmail10.doteasy.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-8.05) id AD28361800D2; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 04:31:36 -0800 Received: from PEAR.EASE.LSOFT.COM (209.119.0.19) by cherry.ease.lsoft.com (LSMTP for Digital Unix v1.1b) with SMTP id <5.00CC2896@cherry.ease.lsoft.com>; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 7:31:26 -0500 Received: from MITVMA.MIT.EDU by MITVMA.MIT.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8e) with spool id 2504 for PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 07:31:20 -0500 Received: from MITVMA (NJE origin SMTP@MITVMA) by MITVMA.MIT.EDU (LMail V1.2d/1.8d) with BSMTP id 8332; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 07:31:04 -0500 Received: from sprucegrove.com [12.151.22.244] by mitvma.mit.edu (IBM VM SMTP Level 430) via TCP with ESMTP ; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 07:31:03 EST X-Comment: mitvma.mit.edu: Mail was sent by sprucegrove.com Received: (from jay@localhost) by sprucegrove.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) id i0TCRkD08791 for PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 07:27:46 -0500 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <200401291227.i0TCRkD08791@sprucegrove.com> Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 07:27:46 -0500 Reply-To: pic microcontroller discussion list Sender: pic microcontroller discussion list From: "D. Jay Newman" Subject: Re: [OT:] On Capitalism, freedom & democracy To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU In-Reply-To: <4018C6B9.1EE8FC43@UALBERTA.ca> from "Robert Rolf" at Jan 29, 2004 01:39:21 AM Precedence: list X-RCPT-TO: Status: U X-UIDL: 371856246 > I wonder if someone will monkey with the code so that a vote for > 'none of the above' chalks up 1000 votes for Bush? Well, there was the district that had -10,000 votes for Gore. I think this was in Florada under the hanging-chad system though. And as long as you're mucking with the electronics, you could just "lose" every tenth vote for the main opposition candidate. That alone should be enough to insure a victory. -- D. Jay Newman ! jay@sprucegrove.com ! Xander: Giles, don't make cave-slayer unhappy. http://enerd.ws/robots/ ! -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details. .