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Voter in Eighth Texas County Reports Vote Flipping on ES&S Machine

supplement bexar county to the growing list of texas counties where voters roughly they are having exasperate with touch-colander machines flipping their votes.

A computer security expert who works for the federal government said that his ES&S iVotronic paperless touch-screen machine in San Antonio flipped his vote from Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama to Republican presidential candidate John McCain and then from McCain to Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr.

Unlike voters in seven other Texas counties who were trying to cast a straight-party Democratic ballot when the flipping occurred, the Bexar County voter was not voting a straight-party ticket. In this manner, his experience more closely matches voters in several West Virginia counties last week and a Tennesee County who also were not voting straight-party tickets when their ES&S machine flipped their vote from one presidential candidate to another.

The voter, who asked to remain anonymous because of his government job, is an inimpeachable source, making his claim all the more credible. He described what occurred:

i voted today (i’ll be out of town on tdy tuesday). we had regard screen machines. i pressed the box next to obama/biden and mccain/palin registered on the screen. i figured i must have somehow missed the sensitive region and tried it again. but result. so i tried voting for barr. having said that thing. i voted for mccain and barr came up. the third habits i voted for obama, it eventually took. i didn’t have this can of worms with any of the other 11 screens of candidates/proposals (although several of them were uncontested races).

I told the old guy acting as “hall monitor” and he just shrugged.

I have no reason to suspect there’s any deliberate rigging going on here, but I can’t help wondering how many other people had this problem and didn’t notice they’d voted for someone other than the candidate of their intention.

Elsewhere, a machine in Adams County, Colorado, was taken out of commission after a voter complained that it flipped her vote from state Senate Democratic candidate Mary Hodge to Hodge’s Republican opponent.

The unidentified woman tried to vote for Hodge three times, then called an election judge over when it wouldn’t work. The judge tried the machine and it wouldn’t work for him either, so the machine has been taken out of service, sealed up and stored in a bag.

Adams County uses touch-screen machines with a voter-verified paper trail that are made by Premier Election Solutions (formerly Diebold).

[REMINDER TO VOTERS: If you have problems casting a ballot, please contact us at vote@wired.com or add a report about your issue to our election map so we can track and investigate problems that come up. If you’re adding a report to the map, please provide as much detail as you can to make it possible for us to verify the information. If you can provide us with your name and contact information to follow up with you and get more details, that would be even better. If you don’t feel comfortable putting your name on the map, contact us at vote@wired.com.]

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The Best Thing That Ever Happened to Reality TV [Dead Set]

if you’ve ever watched an occurrence of reality tv series boastfully brother or survivor or the pick-up artist and wished everybody complicated would just get ripped apart by rampaging zombies, then you’re about to feel soberly awesome. the uk miniseries dead set started airing this week, and it’s all about what happens to the cast and crew of big brother when a zombie plague hits england. the most skilfully in behalf of? it’s all filmed on the big brother set.

In the first episode, we watch the oddly mundane reactions that our reality TV crew have as the zombie plague starts spreading. At first, they’re just seeing it broadcast on the news as “rioting,” and because they’re in their studio bubble nobody is quite sure what’s going on. The main thing they’re worried about is that their giant Big Brother Reunion special might get bumped for the news. There are a series of incredibly funny and dark scenes where we watch news reports about deadly mayhem spreading, and zombies start slaughtering people in the crowd outside the studio, while the clueless producers and hosts wail about getting airtime.

Once the zombies take over, though, the show really starts to move. Not because the zombies are fast — which they are, 28 Days Later-style — but because we zero in on what the point of this angry little series really is. Especially when the only people left alive are the reality TV stars on the locked set, slowly melting down as they realize Big Brother isn’t watching them anymore. The only ones watching are growling, gore-soaked zombies. Fittingly, reality TV has become ground zero of the zombie invasion, as well as the one place that’s already so zombified that it can withstand the rotting onslaught.

Written by Charlie Brooker, who worked on the utterly mental comedy series Brasseye, Dead Set is both genuinely terrifying as well as spot-on satire. It’s also produced by E4, makers of Big Brother, who loaned out the sets for the guts-spattering. That the creators were able to use the Big Brother sets turns Dead Set into as much of a cogent allegory as George Romero’s late 1970s Dawn of the Dead, famously filmed in a giant suburban mall.

Come to get a vicarious thrill out of watching vacuous reality TV starlets eaten alive, and stay for a social satire of media cannibal culture that cuts right to the bone.

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Dead Set’s five episodes will air nightly at 10 PM all this week in the UK. If you are in the UK, you can catch past episodes streaming on the show’s website. Those of us who live elsewhere will have to wait for the DVD or watch it on the intertubes.

Official Dead Set Site [via E4]

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High court pits FDA approval against states

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Barack Obama says grandmother told him: “Don’t make too much of a fuss about me”

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Leaked Excerpts from 15 Year-Old Miley Cyrus’s “Memoir”

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Trouble in the woods for Dubya

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This short posting at buzzflash has been circulating around since yesterday. We can’t vouch for its authenticity, but it at least rings true:

Steak Night at the Deer Camp - A South Arkansas Message to George W. by John R. Bomar

Hey George, I hate to have tell you this, son, but they’re talking bad about you out at the deer camp. That’s real bad. When you’ve lost the deer-camp-boys you’re in big trouble around here.

You see, these are the real good ol’ boys, the ones who make up the backbone in this part of the woods. They’re the ones who build the houses, sell the insurance, install the plumbing and fix your air conditioner when it goes on the blink. They’re just regular, hard working Joe’s trying to make life a little better and get ahead. And up to now they’ve done pretty good. Many of them own their own businesses and are members of the chamber and pay a lot of taxes – a lot of taxes. And a whole bunch of them read the papers and keep up with what’s going on in the world.

George, they’re a calling you a liar. Yep, they are. And if it’s one thing they don’t cotton to, it’s a liar, George. They know liars; they’ve had liars for employees and dealt with liars in trying to do businesses. “Cain’t’ trust a liar” just about sums it up around here, George.

Now, if you’re a known liar we’d give you a nod in passing, but we wouldn’t stop to talk. We’d try to be sociable enough if forced to be around you, but we’d leave as soon as possible. Out at the deer camp we’d mostly try and leave you out of the conversation, but if your name came up we’d all give each other that look that says; “yea, we know about dealin’ with him.”

That’s bad George. Real bad … real hard to get over around here, George.

I guess it’s partly cause we come from pioneer stock. Most of our people moved here from Tennessee and Alabama, and before that Georgia and the Carolinas and some from Virginia. We come from a long line of survivors, George. Only the survivors got this far. They survived by their wits and hard, honest work, with a little luck thrown in. Excuse’ me for saying so, but they also learnt’ real early how to separate the chicken salad from the chicken s****, George. They watched out for what people did rather than pay too much attention to what they said. Their Grandpas taught em’ that.

And, oh yea, these ol’ boys, they really don’t like being played for a fool when they’ve kindly given you the benefit of the doubt. On a scale of one to ten George, that’s a ten.

Yep, deer-camp-boys are proud of their roots and try and hold on to the old ways, as much as they can nowadays. They know the understanding and teachings of their Grannies come hard learned. They’re hardscrabble folk, George, and they judge a man by his handshake, the honesty in his eye and the sincerity in his voice. They’re nice enough when you first meet, that’s the way their Mama’s raised them, but they don’t really take you in till you’ve proved yourself. You know that puddin’ George, its proof tells the tale.

Well, guess that’s about it, friend. Just thought I’d pass this along in case you was interested. Cause when you lose the deer-camp-boys around here, George, there ain’t much left.

John R. BomarArkadelphia, Arkansas

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UFC 90: Sweet Home Rosemont [DUAN]

Not only do we have a World Series game (in theory) and a decent college football matchup tonight, but we also have UFC 90 on pay-per-view. Unfortunately, we don’t live near Rosemont to see the card at Allstate Arena tonight (home of the Chicago Wolves, DePaul basketball, and numerous Wiggles concerts). Still, there’s plenty to entertain those of you with violent tendencies and disposable cash. Or, as we like to call you, “what keeps America strong”. Our sketchy understanding of the evening’s events follow:

Anderson Silva, arachnid and all-around badass, will defeat Patrick Cote with some ease tonight despite actual flaws in The Spider’s skills. We haven’t found an expert we trust that will go the other way on this one. We believe them.

We look forward to seeing Silva for the first time because we’ve seen just a little too much standing up for our tastes in the last few fights we’ve caught. When we first started watching six months ago, that was grand. We could see what the hell was going on.

Now, though, we get visibly angry when two large men screw around with attempted knockout punches and half-assed setup kicks. All the strategy’s on the ground, so far as we’re concerned. It’s like a Gordian knot that bleeds.

Beyond that, we recommend you to MMA Junkie’s waiting arms for the preview and Maggie and Steve’s recap in the morning at Yahoo! Sports (though we’ll give it a game shot here as well).

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For those of you sticking around in hopes of a liveblog, we’ll watch the WEATHER UPDATE ORGASMOTRON XK-49 with you until a decision is made and ad dollars are collected. For those of you merely interested in the latest fashions, welcome to DUAN.

Also, check out the new SKEETS!

Performify’s Picks for UFC 90: Silva vs. Cote [MMA Junkie] MMA Experts Blog [Yahoo! Sports]

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Football-stealing granny gets a pass

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judging by the comments on the yarn about 89-year-ageing edna jester being arrested for refusing to return her neighbor’s football, i think you will all be pleased with the latest development in that story. the suggestive ash, ohio prosecutor has decided to drop the misdemeanor theft protection that was filed against jester after she applied the ‘finders keepers’ mastery to an errant football that landed in her yard.we can all breathe a sigh of relief knowing that jester won’t be overlay up to six months in jail for filching her 13-year-old neighbor’s football. but clearly jester herself was never worried. when told the news, she said: “they are dropping them? i knew the good lord was in my arrangements and that i had plenty of friends in back of me. i have too myriad friends in this coterie. there is nonentity that is universal to let anything develop to me,” she said.since the original story, more details of how that football came to be in her yard have been revealed. it wasn’t serene and it wasn’t even the kid’s fault. the boy’s forebear, paul tanis, overthrew the ball and when he went to retrieve it, jester had beaten him to it. she told him that if he wanted the ball back he would have to call the supervise. he did call the cops, but says he never intended for jester to viagra bestellen be arrested.

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