Live as if the World Were As It Should Be

Your honor:

Objection! The plaintiff is totally busting my client's balls, and also? He's a total dick! Nyar!

Respectfully,

The Defendants

I think it's time to develop a formal symbology for logical and argumentative fallacies. That way, when I explain to somebody that they're under delusions of a straw man fallacy, I can just write: &0x3020;

Then an overly complicated cascade of broken Unicode symbols can follow.

Investigation of Diebold machines by Blackboxvoting.org and Bev Harris has revealed that it wasn't the touch-screen machines we should have been worried about - it was the optical scanning machines. Their investigation has determined that not only are they incredibly easy to hack, they seem to have been designed for this purpose:

"It's probably not an accident," Harris said, "because you can look back through the source code to see that [Diebold] went through some programming contortions to keep this thing there. It had to have been expensive for them, frankly."
"When we saw the way they designed it [the ‘built-in']," Harris explained, "Harri [Hursti, computer expert] said 'We have the Holy Grail.' The Elections people are very concerned," Harris said.

The most disturbing discovery in recent memory is the latest report from Blackboxvoting.org:

In another test, Congresswoman Corrine Brown (FL-Dem) was shocked to see the impact of a trojan implanted by Dr. Herbert Thompson. She asked if the program could be manipulated in such a way as to flip every fifth vote.

"No problem," Dr. Thompson replied.

"It IS a problem. It's a PROBLEM!" exclaimed Brown, whose district includes the troubled Volusia County, along with Duval County -- both currently using the Diebold opti-scan system.

I would recommend you read both articles carefully - there is a lot of technical detail.