hamsterkris

Not to mention intentional sabotage. Chuck Hagel ran for the Senate seat in Nebraska right after being the CEO of the company that contructed the electronic voting machines used in his election. He was the first Republican to win a Senate seat in Nebraska for 24 years. Six years layer he won again in an unprecedented "landslide".

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Hagel (Check the end of Business Career and the beginning of U.S. Senate)

I've been pissed about that one for a couple of years now, it's frigging outrageous!

Agreed, I was shaken to my core after finding out about this. This is the sort of thing you don't think actually happens in a democracy. I've been opposed to electronic voting ever since.

but they must print out a paper copy that the voter can verify

Yes, I concur. This was however deliberately avoided in Hagel's election. After his second win his opponent demanded a recount, but was unsuccessful:

Meanwhile, back in Nebraska, Charlie Matulka had requested a hand count of the vote in the election he lost to Hagel. He just learned his request was denied because, he said, Nebraska has a just-passed law that prohibits government-employee election workers from looking at the ballots, even in a recount. The only machines permitted to count votes in Nebraska, he said, are those made and programmed by the corporation formerly run by Hagel. Matulka shared his news with me, then sighed loud and long on the phone, as if he were watching his children's future evaporate. "If you want to win the election," he finally said, "just control the machines."

https://www.thomhartmann.com/articles/2003/01/if-you-want-win-election-just-control-voting-machines

You think that's crazy? This is crazy:

Cases of herpes in baby boys linked to ultra-Orthodox Jewish circumcision ritual going up - The Independent

The majority of Jewish circumcision ceremonies do not include metzitzah b’peh, in which the mohel, or circumciser, places their mouth directly on the wound to suck away the blood. An estimated 3,000 babies are circumcised each year using the method in New York City, home to the largest Jewish population outside Israel.

Babies have died because people with herpes have been sucking on their bleeding genitals.

"I can't believe I'm looking at the same moon that you're looking at right now from halfway across the world."

:O I remember saying something similar to a guy once. But it was more like, even though we're thousands of miles apart the same sun that's shining down on me is shining down on you. It made the distance feel smaller somehow.

The prospect of data gathering and surveillance killed the cybersex though :/ "Want to videoskype? You, me... and the NSA."

(sorry for butting in, couldn't help myself. I'm also a musician. runs away)