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An excellent bit of satire by the good people at The Onion - and all the more brilliant because it’s not altogether unbelievable.

Diebold, incidentally, builds electronic voting machines for U.S. elections. The machines can apparently be hacked, rigged or otherwise tampered with to ensure a candidate’s victory. Nothing satirical about that - here’s an excerpt from a Wired article on a case of wonky vote-counting in California:

Silicon Valley computer experts have long criticized touch-screen voting machines, which do not normally provide a paper receipt and which send digital votes directly to a computer server. Programmers say software bugs, power outages or clever hackers could easily delete or alter data — and recounts would prove impossible without paper backups.

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