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Voting security in the pop culture
October 9, 2008
It is pretty interesting to see how the pop culture picks up and re-elaborates something you have been working on as a research topic, in this case, the security of electronic voting machines.
And, what's more pop culture than The Onion, The Simpsons, and xkcd (OK, maybe geeky-pop)?
The Onion has covered eletronic voting in several cases. Probably, the funniest one is a breaking news where it is announced that Diebold prematurely leaked the results of the '08 elections.
The Simpsons have a great (leaked) episode where Homer attempts to vote for Obama, but is confronted with "miscalibrations" in the DRE machine he's forced to use...
xkcd came up with a great comic strip to comment on the fact that anti-virus software allegedly caused problems with Premier Election Solutions (formerly, Diebold) voting machines in Ohio.
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