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August 15, 2008

#463: Voting Machines explain

Voting Machines

[Caption above panels:]

Premier Election Solutions (formerly Diebold) has blamed Ohio voting machine errors on problems with the machines’ McAfee antivirus software.

[Cueball is sitting at a computer, facepalming.]

Cueball: Wait. “Antivirus software”? On voting machines? You’re doing it wrong.

[Cueball’s friend enters the frame and speaks to Cueball.]

Friend: Why? Security is good, right?

Cueball: Of course. But, well—

Cueball: Imagine you’re at a parent-teacher conference, and the teacher reassures you that he always wears a condom while teaching.

Friend: Ah. Strictly speaking, it’s better than the alternative—

Cueball: —Yet someone is clearly doing their job horribly wrong.