10.24.2006

The election is screwed...

...and it's all the fault of the evil Internet. A twofer!
(ABC NEWS) - Oct. 23, 2006 — As if there weren't enough concerns about the integrity of the vote, a non-partisan civic organization today claimed it had hacked into the voter database for the 1.35 million voters in the city of Chicago.

Not that electoral chicanery is anything new in Chicago, you understand. And not that the election isn't screwed. Or that the Internet isn't evil - hey, we all know that by now. But there's something about this last-minute spike in election-hack news that's got me feeling wary here. Maybe it's just kicked my paranoia up a notch. Or maybe it's nothing more than good old-fashioned American lastminuteism. Or...maybe...well, we'll just have to wait and see, I guess.

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