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TruthIsAll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-19-04 02:11 PM
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A " GLITCH". IT'S ALWAYS A "GLITCH" WHICH FAVORS THE REPUBS. A "GLITCH".
Edited on Sun Dec-19-04 02:41 PM by TruthIsAll
An isolated incident.
A power surge.
A machine malfunction.
The server went down.
An unfortunate programming bug.
It won't happen again.

It was a GLICH.

Just a GLICH. Like in Volusia County, FL when 16,022 Gore votes were dropped and spread around to third party candidates, 10,000 of them to the SOCIALIST candidiate.

Dan Rather called it a "computer glich" at the time.
Then he called Florida for Bush.

The rest is history.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Indiana. This is from WISH TV

http://www.wishtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=2557466

November 12, 2004
Computer Glitch Found in Franklin County Ballot-Counting

(Brookville) - A recount prompted by a computer glitch in Franklin County's voting machines has given a Democrat enough votes to bump a Republican from victory in a county council race.

The glitch in the Fidlar Election Company optical vote-scanning system had recorded straight-Democratic Party votes for Libertarians.

When the votes were recounted by hand last night, Democrat Carroll Lanning leaped from fifth to third in the three-seat council race and Republican Roy Hall fell to fifth.

Fidlar confirmed the glitch, but calls it an isolated incident. But the company is also checking the programming of its equipment in nine other Indiana counties.

Besides Franklin, those counties are: Benton, Elkhart, Fulton, LaGrange, Newton, Ripley, Scott, Steuben, Switzerland
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New Earth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-19-04 02:13 PM
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1. hey man
just for the hell of it, i just googled your name. your name is everywhere, they talk about you in blogs. :o and use your information that you post here.
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TruthIsAll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-23-04 08:27 AM
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13. Google Bush computer glitch
Edited on Thu Dec-23-04 08:28 AM by TruthIsAll
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bleever Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-19-04 02:18 PM
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2. Origin of the English use of the word "glitch": very interesting.
From the American Heritage Dictionary:

"Word History: Although glitch seems a word that people would always have found useful, it is first recorded in English in 1962 in the writing of John Glenn: “Another term we adopted to describe some of our problems was ‘glitch.’” Glenn then gives the technical sense of the word the astronauts had adopted: “Literally, a glitch is a spike or change in voltage in an electrical current.” It is easy to see why the astronauts, who were engaged in a highly technical endeavor, might have generalized a term from electronics to cover other technical problems. Since then glitch has passed beyond technical use and now covers a wide variety of malfunctions and mishaps."
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Senator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-19-04 02:25 PM
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5. So an Ohioan even coined the word "glitch"....how fitting n/t
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RevCheesehead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-23-04 05:12 PM
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22. not to mention "a future Senator."
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madison2000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-19-04 02:19 PM
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3. Enough glitches might bring down this presidency
glitch after glitch all in the same direction...
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eleny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-19-04 02:22 PM
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4. Like not destroying the tapes - a Watergate "glitch"
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tridim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-19-04 02:45 PM
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6. Let's hire "The Bobs" to "fix the glitch"
While they listen to the entire Michael Bolton catalog.

Sorry, I just watched Office Space last night.
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Splinter Cell Donating Member (498 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-19-04 03:52 PM
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7. That's funny....
....they call it bullshit where I come from.
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burn the bush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-19-04 05:12 PM
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8. glitches are Gop Lying bITCHES or Glitches
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DoYouEverWonder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-19-04 05:27 PM
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9. A glitch is random
fraud is not.

Since just about every 'glitch' has been to Bush's benefit, I would say that what we are seeing is deliberate fraud across the board.

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AmerDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-19-04 05:33 PM
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10. yea really, a "GlITCH" that controls the free world
More like a fascist take over!
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Igel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-19-04 05:58 PM
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11. Was this recount requested by the candidate,
triggered by media questioning of the numbers, or was it ordered independently by the BOE?
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TruthIsAll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-23-04 08:22 AM
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12. Do a database screen on Computer "glich". See how many were good for Bush.
.
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me b zola Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-23-04 09:30 AM
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14. How many glitches does it take to get to the center of election fraud?
Do any of us dare to ask for statistical analysis of the amount of glitches in *'s favor?

If there are any artists out there, this picture keeps coming to mind...lady justice holding her scale. One side weighted down with glitches. Maybe give her a black eye, maybe she is bent over from the strain of the weight, clutching with her other hand her back. Maybe the other pan of the scale should contain American Democracy.
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Viva_La_Revolution Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-23-04 09:35 AM
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15. One, Twoooo, Threee!!! LOL!!
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texpatriot2004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-23-04 10:15 AM
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16. I know computer programmers who say there's no such thing
as a "glitch." There are no glitches, only programs. The computers do what they are programmed to do, they do as they are told. What if there truly are no glitches because there is no such thing ? Then what would we call all the errors that favored * ?

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Kellis Donating Member (663 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-23-04 10:31 AM
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17. um
Fraud?
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Doctor O Donating Member (222 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-23-04 10:31 AM
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18. Glitches are more like unexplained things that happen with computers
Mostly programming bugs which have not been found, or other unexplained things. It is safe to say that NO computer software is without bugs. While computer programs do tell a machine what to do, NO software program is without bugs. Some of these bugs are innocuous, but others can be quite problematic, so deeply embedded in the code that it takes a lot of investigation to find a bug. If you look at Microsoft, one of their operating systems, (either XP or Windows 2000) shipped with over 60,000 documented bugs and we get patches on their operating systems either through automatic updates or Service packs which fix these bugs.

Oftentimes even after severe testing bugs which have been in software for years only come out after years of use. Simple changes or upgrades to hardware, conflicts with additional components, upgrades of operating systems, conflicts with other software programs can also create problems with how computer software operates.

I have had staff tracking down bugs reported by users that we can not recreate or even find. And in most cases it ends up being certain keystrokes that a user makes that unless you see the bug happen while watching a user can it be determined.

Over the past years, development methods and testing methods are getting better and software is safer and of a better quality, but to say software or hardware is perfect and bug free is simply not true.

So we sometimes just call them glitches when we can not explain it.
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electropop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-23-04 10:36 AM
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19. As a programmer
I am well aware that programmers often make mistakes. Truth is, the average programmer spends 20% of time writing new code and 80% finding bugs. However, the odds of multiple programmers at multiple companies making multiple errors that always favor Bushco are nearly zero. These are not errors or glitches, they are the behavior of code performing exactly as intended.
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Doctor O Donating Member (222 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-23-04 10:45 AM
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20. True, but the point is that bugs do occur, and the above is trying to
make it sound like there is never any bugs in software which is simply not true.
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TruthIsAll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-23-04 05:09 PM
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21. 86 off 88 touchscreen "glitches": Pressed Kerry, came up Bush.
Just TWO pressed Bush and came up Kerry.

Nationwide gliches, most in OH and FL.

How many went unreported?

How many defaulted to Bush without the voter knowing it?

How many machines were made by Repubs?

What did O'Dell (Diebold CEO) promise Bush?

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