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Romney has bought the company that counts the votes?

There's no need for satire when things like this happen.

 Redbeard wrote:

 Frazzled wrote:

I can guarantee no on on the Board of directors knows how to program their clocks much less a computer program.

Really? Not one member of the board of directors of what is obviously a tech company might have a tech background? I mean, I don't know who they are, but I think that's a big claim to make.

Its possable they don't know how the machines their company is currently selling operate.

It can take years to reach the top of a company, during which time the technology will have advanced beyond what you learned in your educational field.

Many directors will also be investors that simply bought large quantities of capital stock in the company. You need to know jack squat about programming to invest millions in the electronic industry.


Its really only the CEO who you could reasonably assume would have knowledge of how to reprogram the product.

 dæl wrote:
Romney has bought the company that counts the votes?

There's no need for satire when things like this happen.

Not Romney his son, Romney. Just because Romney is Romney doesn't mean he's Romney. Besides why shouldn't Romney own the machines that count Romney's votes for Romney? It sounds like you're biased against Romney and Romney, heck you're probably biased against Romney too.

 Frazzled wrote:

 MeanGreenStompa wrote:

 Frazzled wrote:

SO you're alleging that a shareholder who owns shares in another company are going to go through two boards of directors (one of which is a public company) to do what again?

I allege that it represents a clear conflict of interests and opens up the possibility of manipulation of the figures.

BY who and how?

Again you're going through two boards of directors, therough executive management, all the way down to programmers to perform felonies on a galactic scale? You think all of them are going to do that?

Even the Democratic ones?

Just to build on your remarks, Fraz, consider the fact that Romney can't even fart without it being posted all over the internet.

Wow...

and I'm the one been accused of tin-foiling about Bengahzi-gate...

o.O

tin foil
He doesn't need to cheat!
/tin foil


I'll just leave this here:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/2012_elections_electoral_college_map.html

Is he trolling the democrats? Or is he actually stupid enough to do something that looks this shady right before an election?
There's got to be a strategy here.

As said, its not Mitt doing this. Its his son.

Are you serious? I mean, that that is a defense?

I state a fact. Mitt is not the one that did this.

My guess is his son made a business decision that could have political backlash. My guess is Dad is going to be on the phone shortly and have some choice words for his son.

 Chongara wrote:

 dæl wrote:
Romney has bought the company that counts the votes?

There's no need for satire when things like this happen.

Not Romney his son, Romney. Just because Romney is Romney doesn't mean he's Romney. Besides why shouldn't Romney own the machines that count Romney's votes for Romney? It sounds like you're biased against Romney and Romney, heck you're probably biased against Romney too.

Cause I'm the real Romney, yes I'm the real Romney
All you other real Romney are just imitating
So won't the real real Romney please stand up,
please stand up, please stand up?

Cause I'm the real Romney, yes I'm the real Romney
All you other real Romney's are just imitating
So won't the real Romney please stand up,
please stand up, please stand up?


GG

Didn't this happen once already in Florida in 2004 ?

The tin foil in here is fantastic.

Almost as fantastic as the obtuse head in the sand behaviour of some who think that the family of a presidential candidate owning voting machines isn't questionable.

MeanGreenStompa wrote:Almost as fantastic as the obtuse head in the sand behaviour of some who think that the family of a presidential candidate owning voting machines isn't questionable.

We can trust Romney to count the votes honestly. I mean, its not like he'd lie about something that important. He's a very honest man.

LOL almost everyone on this thread sounds like they still listen to their parents regardles of their age

Jihadin wrote:LOL almost everyone on this thread sounds like they still listen to their parents regardles of their age

Hey man, your man pushed you headfirst out of her [censored]. That's kinda like gakking a whole watermelon. You ought to respect her.

Hey man, your man pushed you headfirst out of her [censored]. That's kinda like gakking a whole watermelon. You ought to respect her.

Lictor you probaly just mentally scarred a few teens on here....

Jihadin wrote:

Hey man, your man pushed you headfirst out of her [censored]. That's kinda like gakking a whole watermelon. You ought to respect her.

Spoiler:

Lictor you probaly just mentally scarred a few teens on here....

Teenagers have it coming. Ungrateful hormonal bastards.

 LoneLictor wrote:

Teenagers have it coming. Ungrateful hormonal bastards.

Truth. fethers have it coming.. Let them think about that next time they insist upon shooting their genetic code around like it's some kind of super soaker.


I mean, the rest of us have to LIVE with that.

anyone having ties to a campaign should be barred from owning voting machines


PERIOD.


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the old folks have to worry the most


us 30 somethings will have plenty of more bad presidents

you old timers will get all your benefits cut and be stuck relying on your broke ass kids

So if you are in any way related to anyone running from office you are prohibited from owning any portion of a company that makes and sells voting machines?

Pretty sure thats are very convoluted path to take and draw up an arbitrary restriction.

 Grey Templar wrote:
So if you are in any way related to anyone running from office you are prohibited from owning any portion of a company that makes and sells voting machines?

Pretty sure thats are very convoluted path to take and draw up an arbitrary restriction.

this should be fething mandatory

stores running "lottery" promotions BAN all employees and ALL THEIR FAMILY from participating


and here we are talking about a person who's fething FATHER is running for arguably the highest office on EARTH

Now, Roswell, that's a bunch of crap. The Air Force was in possession of captured alien technology years before that. In '43, they started reverse-engineering a torus-shaped craft that came down in Arizona, and the next thing you know, America has The Bomb, supersonic aircraft, and a space program. Glenn saw stuff up there, flying lights. You can look it up. You know what I think? I think that skirt-chaser Kennedy wanted to spill the beans about our alien friends, so they killed him. He told his girlfriend Marilyn Monroe, and they killed her, too. No doubt, you're wondering, "Who are 'they'?" Well, I think the numbers speak for themselves: The Trinity site, where the first A-bomb was detonated; Dealey Plaza, where Kennedy bought the farm; and Area 51 are all on the 33rd parallel. And what other significance does the number 33 happen to have? It's the highest rank of the Masonic order. Wheels within wheels, my friend. Wheels within wheels.

You don't think it's at all improper for someone so closely linked to an important political campaign to own the machines that count the votes?

 Grey Templar wrote:

Its possable they don't know how the machines their company is currently selling operate.

That doesn't really matter. Even if they don't the board still has power over the people that do. Its an easy thing to ask technicians to ensure a Romney victory.

Of course, being an easy thing its also a stupid thing that nearly all technicians would have an incentive to report to media sources.

Electronic voting machines: the only slot machine where you lose 100% of the time.


Seriously, though. In Canada, we have a piece of paper with a large circle beside each candidate's name. You place a big X through the circle of your chosen candidate. Then at the end of the day, we count up all of the pieces of paper and determine who received the most votes. And we find it hilarious that anyone could ever possibly screw this up.

And thats how most ballots here are counted too. Machines aren't present everwhere.

And so my faith in the US continues to slip...

After all this is the country where a child molester has more chance of becoming president than an atheist.

 Squigsquasher wrote:
After all this is the country where a child molester has more chance of becoming president than an atheist.

Aren't they considered to be pretty much the same thing in some circles (perhaps ironically give some churches not so distant histories ).

 Squigsquasher wrote:
And so my faith in the US continues to slip...

After all this is the country where a child molester has more chance of becoming president than an atheist.

Lolwhut?