17% of Marquette University students vote more than once

[denali]

Story, it just keeps getting better by the day.

 

[AndrewR]

I hope they prosecute them and throw them in jail. It's a felony after all. Let's see the smug bastard show others how to vote more than once while sitting with Bubba in prison. At a sentence of four years, he'll see the next election on a prison TV.

 

[JellyBaby]

Yeah, lock 'em up but don't ignore the message. In most places, they don't even check your ID so if you simply know someone else's address and phone number you can cast their vote using their ballot. Not exactly secure by any means.

 

[Czar]

What a screw up, I think its time for a complete revote everywhere.

 

[vi edit]

Well, at least he wrote in his own name instead of voting for a "real" candidate. He isn't throwing off the accuracy of the count himself. I can't say the same for the other 12 who voted 4 times.

 

[azazyel]

I don't think they should be prosecuted for showing the errors in the system.

 

[StageLeft]

Yes of course they should. Its like the guys who break into a big system and say "Look what I can do - fix this, but don't hurt me I'm trying to help!" What they did was:

1) Illegal
2) Helpful

Yes it was helpful in hindsight but that fact has nothing whatsoever to do with the first fact. So, they should be prosecuted as any criminal would be. In regards to helping out they should get awarded appropriately, but the helping out does not cancel out - just as a hacker who "points out security errors" is rightfully prosecuted. ANY system can be broken, their only helpful point was indicating how easy it is to do so, they still broke the law.

 

[sweetrobin]

Thats like saying ... I see that these people have left their doors unlocked so I'm going to steal their car radio to show them that they shouldn't leave it unlocked again .. then I'm going to go tell people that I did it .. but I'm going to expect them to leave me alone because I did it to teach them a lesson.

 

[StageLeft]

Exactly. All this really shows is that the university isn't testing its potential students for basic brain functionality.