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[GlyphGryph]

If you're prepared anyway - considering it requires originals (not copies) or 2 other forms of identification, it can still be difficult.

[Flying Dice]

True. My main issue was that they repeatedly refused to accept my birth certificate because the govt. office that printed it was low on ink. 

[SealyStar]

Oh my God, the Obama/Romney rap battle was so absolutely hilarious. What if Lincoln really did come back in an eagle's claws, lol?

[Mictlantecuhtli]

Today's election news:

Fox news is still clinging onto Libya, making strawmen all day and calling in 'experts' to spew vitriol directed at our Socialist Black Terrorist Muslim [also President, but don't worry they don't give a shit since he's a Democrat] that is completely unrelated to what actually happened.

Other channels continue to cover nothing of substance. Oh well. Guess we just need to be used to the news being this retarded.

[Sirus]

What event in Libya? The "send forces to help overthrow Ghaddafi" part or the "pissed off crowd attacks embassy there" part? Both? Neither?

[Descan]

This is why I chose to be incarnated as a Canadian liberal.

So I don't go crazy from the quite-frankly insane TV you guys have.

I mean have you seen your commercials? They're really... weird. I can't place my finger on it, but... rougher, would be what I would call them.

LONG LIVE CANADA

oh and internet news is better in general. more choice for finding less biased sites and news hubs

[Mictlantecuhtli]

Claiming Obama is saying the attack on the consulate wasn't terrorism, blaming him directly even though it's the fucking state department's job to oversee security, claiming the president cut security when it was congressional budgets that cut embassy security funding across the world, etc. It's politicizing dead Americans, and morons are falling for it. Blaming Obama [also known as 'that black guy' to many opponents] is one of the most successful conspiracy theories I've ever seen occur in our time.



Gas prices? Obama's fault.

Energy prices increased? Don't you know, Obama has specifically targetted middle class people's energy providers to make their costs go up!

Fall down, break something? Obama's fault.

And on the flip side, if oil/gas/shale/whatthefuckever production is increasing locally, or the local unemployment level is dropping or if ANYTHING positive has occurred locally under watch of Republican legislature it's "Despite Obama's Policies" [exact phrasing that I've heard enough to believe it; almost!].

[Sirus]

I guess I should have included an "all of the above" option, then

[Duuvian]

http://www.clevelandleader.com/node/19137

Tag Romney owns a big slice of Hart Intercivic, a company that runs voting machines in Ohio.

Boy, that Romney campaign sure do use every dirty trick they can. That sure reflects poorly on whatever good and honest Republicans there may be.

[kaenneth]

http://www.clevelandleader.com/node/19137

Tag Romney owns a big slice of Hart Intercivic, a company that runs voting machines in Ohio.

Boy, that Romney campaign sure do use every dirty trick they can. That sure reflects poorly on whatever good and honest Republicans there may be.

I'm sure they are both furious about it.

[Dutchling]

http://www.clevelandleader.com/node/19137

Tag Romney owns a big slice of Hart Intercivic, a company that runs voting machines in Ohio.

That's why I'm glad we don't use voting machines here :S.

[Reelya]

Just wondering how American voter machines stack up against the Venezuelan system.

In Venezuela, all voting machines use open source code which is publicly available, the machines store a digital record of your vote, transmit a copy of the data over a secure line, and prints a hard copies showing what you voted for, which you stick into a box, which are counted to check against the machines.

All data in each machine is encrypted, and each major political party plus the electoral commission only provides PART of the encryption key required to decode each actual machine, effectively meaning you can't add false votes to a machine without getting all the other party's keys.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/11086277#post1
http://foundationfordemocraticadvancement.blogspot.com.au/2012/10/insight-into-venezuelas-automated.html

[SalmonGod]

Just wondering how American voter machines stack up against the Venezuelan system.

In Venezuela, all voting machines use open source code which is publicly available, the machines store a digital record of your vote, transmit a copy of the data over a secure line, and prints a hard copies showing what you voted for, which you stick into a box, which are counted to check against the machines.

All data in each machine is encrypted, and each major political party plus the electoral commission only provides PART of the encryption key required to decode each actual machine, effectively meaning you can't add false votes to a machine without getting all the other party's keys.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/11086277#post1
http://foundationfordemocraticadvancement.blogspot.com.au/2012/10/insight-into-venezuelas-automated.html

I'll just leave this here

This video has been floating around the internet for years.  This is the third upload I've seen of it, and I've since saved it for when it inevitably disappears again.  I imagine its repeated disappearance is the reason it's never gone very viral, because it seems like something that people would talk about more.  I don't know anything about the actual court case filmed, so I can't offer any context or credibility to it.  This is why I've never made much effort to spread it around.  Your question makes it highly relevant.

Ah... apparently the guy in the video is Clint Curtis.  More digging can be done from here.

[Karlito]

In Venezuela, all voting machines use open source code which is publicly available, the machines store a digital record of your vote, transmit a copy of the data over a secure line, and prints a hard copies showing what you voted for, which you stick into a box, which are counted to check against the machines.

As far as I know Voting Machines in the US are closed-source and come from a variety of companies (each State is responsible for counting their own votes). Not all of them have paper receipts, and some of them are fairly trivial to tamper with. I know Princeton University in particular has a few reports and videos floating around showing them doing just that.

[darkrider2]

I'll just leave this here

If companies have full ownership of the machines, I'm going to believe this is far more widespread than it looks.