Posted on 11/05/2004 7:47:45 PM PST by RogerWilko
Broward is a Dem County, so it was probably linux. :)
Yup, and the reporters can't handle numbers like 32,767, either!
Bev Harris runs http://www.blackboxvoting.org/ and is sort of an "authority" on the problems with electronic voting machines. Apparently she's gotten herself a lot of publicity, including an appearance on Lou Dobbs.
She's also a DUmmy and is right now engaged in a Super Top Secret Project to obtain voting machine audit data from 3,000 precincts around the country, using FOIA requests.
Today she posted a Secret Update (shhh, don't tell anyone) and her fellow DUmmies responded with heartfelt thanks. They think she's gonna' break the election.
It's completely unclear why they think it would break for Kerry.
AMEN Brother!
SHEESHH. The one good thing about my county is that they use a very easy to use ballot form. You bubble the ballot in. That's all. No big deal.
** DEFINITION OF THE DEMOCRAT VOTING MACHINE OPERATION **
(1) DEMOCRAT VOTE: ADD TWO VOTES
(2) REPUBLICAN VOTE: SUBTRACT ONE VOTE
(3) INDEPENDENT VOTE: DO NOTHING
---- aint it the truth - put nothing past these crooks!!!
this is SO MESSED UP !!
I voted using a PUNCH CARD SYSTEM - butterfly ballot.
Worked FINE. I wasnt 'bamboozled' by it.
WHY were electronic voting machines approved ?
WHY on GOD's GREEN EARTH wasnt I required to show my
Drivers licence, or I.D. ??
This really is messed up.
eh?
Check out this post from one of their fine teachers I found whilst surfing the DUmpster:
schoolteacherpam (1000+ posts)
Wed Nov-03-04 11:47 AM
Original message
okay you stupid motherf*kers that voted for bush don't come crying
when you lose your health care your overtime that you were going to use for Christmas your civil liberties and your kids get killed you deserve it all you dumb motherf*kers
YEAAAA for Lie-Beral Teachers!!
With teachers like this, no wonder the DUmmies are brainwashed beyond repair!! HOLY CRAP!!
I'll tell you in technical terms. They used what in computer terms is called a "16-bit signed integer" instead of a floating point decimal or double integer to sum the totals. Computers can only recognize 1's and 0's (a "bit") and programmers recognized the need for computers to use negative numbers, so they decided to use the first bit in a 16 bit to designate the sign of the number, a 0 means the number is positive, a 1 means the number is negative.
A 16-bit signed integer counts from 0 to 32,767 by using just 0's and 1's like this 0000 0000 0000 0000 = +0, 0000 0000 0000 0001 = +1, 0000 0000 0000 0011 = +2, and so on until 0111 1111 1111 1111 = +32,767. The very next number is 1000 0000 0000 0000 and instead of +32,768, the number represents -0 and 1000 0000 0000 0001 = -1.
The computer just continued adding NEGATIVE numbers to the total, thinking it was dealing with an unsigned integer or a floating point decimal or a double integer (two 16-bit words that are treated as one 32-bit word).
Very stupid mistake.
Yeah, you would have thought all the worry over the year 2000 would have been fresh in their minds.
Fellow computer heads, I see (although my programming is limited to industrial HMI's and PLC's). (See post #30)
Could be worse. Could have been MacOS. The BSD is short for BERKELEY Software Development. ; )
Modern programmer.(college student hired off the street)
It sounds to me like the number just wrapped.
2 byte ints. Guess they thought no precinct would ever be this large. Are they using core memory strung by seamstresses or sumfn?
We love it!
32767
Watch It, Watch It.
We're not all "Duh" here.
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