{"id":479,"date":"2010-03-03T21:19:04","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T05:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amsconfidential.wordpress.com\/?p=479"},"modified":"2011-06-12T19:52:13","modified_gmt":"2011-06-13T03:52:13","slug":"hacktastic-literally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/amsconfidential\/2010\/03\/03\/hacktastic-literally\/","title":{"rendered":"Hack vs. Hack"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oh goodness, y’all.<\/p>\n

In a grandiose lesson about knocking on wood, not counting chickens before eggs are hatched, ETCETERA, in tonight’s council meeting our illustrious EA Isabel informed the group that the heretofore scandal-free AMS elections were, in fact, scandalicious.<\/p>\n

Ladies and gentlemen: it appears we got hacked.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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like, it was way rad<\/p><\/div>\n

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For big fat details in all their glory, you can read the full text of the Elections Fraud Report<\/a>.\u00a0 A quick summary follows, however, for you kids on the go.<\/p>\n

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  1. Mark Latham, Voter Funded Media guru, was analyzing data for his own purposes & discovered an apparent irregularity; he notified Isabel, who alerted the proper authorities.<\/li>\n
  2. There are 731 “Suspect Votes” which were identified as being from the same IP address & voting in a four-hour bloc (a very large number of votes in a very short amount of time).<\/li>\n
  3. An independent party, Forensic Data Recovery (FDR), has been hired to investigate this occurrence and see if their are other instances of voter fraud in the elections.<\/li>\n
  4. These 731 votes affect ONLY the following races:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n