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An Electronic Voting Firm Exposes 1.8M Chicagoans

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Re: An Electronic Voting Firm Exposes 1.8M Chicagoans

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Post by vforgione »

rossitter wrote: post #10
rvail2 wrote: post #3

1.8M Voters. Somehow voted democrat 2.1M times....

Where are you getting your 2.1 million figure? It was 913,000[0]. Combined with 699,000 votes for Clinton/Kaine from suburban Cook County[1]—whose voters seem to have been unaffected by this breach—you get the 1.6 million number reported by AP for the county[2]. [0] - https://chicagoelections.com/en/wdlevel3.asp?elec_code=4 - must manually select 'President & Vice President, U.S.' [1] - http://results1116.cookcountyc…

I'm pretty sure this is a reference to the "vote early and vote often" phrase that is typically correlated with Chicago, and especially with the Democratic machine politics.

Source: Chicagoan. And I found this hilarious.

Re: An Electronic Voting Firm Exposes 1.8M Chicagoans

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Post by gvb »

vforgione wrote: post #11
rossitter wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Where are you getting your 2.1 million figure? It was 913,000[0]. Combined with 699,000 votes for Clinton/Kaine from suburban Cook County[1]—whose voters seem to have been unaffected by this breach—you get the 1.6 million number reported by AP for the county[2]. [0] - https://chicagoelections.com/en/wdlevel3.asp?elec_code=4 - must manually select 'President & Vice President, U.S.' [1] - http://results1116.cookcountyc…

I'm pretty sure this is a reference to the "vote early and vote often" phrase that is typically correlated with Chicago, and especially with the Democratic machine politics. Source: Chicagoan. And I found this hilarious.

Alternate take: "It's not a big deal, most of them are dead."

Re: An Electronic Voting Firm Exposes 1.8M Chicagoans

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Post by colinyoung »

As both a Chicagoan and (obviously) an Illinois resident, this means my voter info has been exposed twice this year alone.

Amazon sent out warning emails for owners of misconfigured boxes about 60 days ago. Why didn't the firm in question take action? I am an engineer and literally had to do that same task at work at that time. Easy as 2 clicks.

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Post by monksy »

colinyoung wrote: post #14

As both a Chicagoan and (obviously) an Illinois resident, this means my voter info has been exposed twice this year alone. Amazon sent out warning emails for owners of misconfigured boxes about 60 days ago. Why didn't the firm in question take action? I am an engineer and literally had to do that same task at work at that time. Easy as 2 clicks.

The ticket wasn't a high enough priority. Or the PO didn't want to prioritize it in the sprint.

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Post by knieveltech »

lpa22 wrote: post #13

This is EXACTLY the reason I don't vote

Choosing to abdicate your civic responsibility is certainly your right but this is easily the most bullshit rationale I've heard offered to support the choice. I'm guessing you also don't shop at Target or Amazon?
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