Obama Ads In EA Games

I have to say that I’m seriously impressed/frightened by the ingeniousness of this idea. But as the election fast approaching, the Obama camp is thinking of new ways to reach voters. This Obama ad is within the video game Burnout Paradise, and it’s not the only game that features this promotion. Apparently several games including Madden NFL 09 Need For Speed: Carbon have the ad, but not everyone will see them. The games don’t ship with this advertisement, as you must be connected to Xbox Live to view them. And they are only running in the toss up states such as Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Indiana, Montana, North Carolina, New Mexico, Nevada, Ohio and Wisconsin.

The ad directs gamers to voteforchange.com, an Obama site.

No matter how you may view this, it goes to show you that gamers are not just looked at as little kids with a silly hobby any more.

Vote early…. Vote often. That’s the Chicago Way!!!

[Crunchgear]

Five Years, No Patches, Govt Server, Worm Virus, OBVIOUSLY HAPPENED IN FLORIDA

New concerns about the accuracy of electronic voting in Sarasota County, Florida are being raised after a published report documented how the county's main database system came under attack from a virulent worm. The county server was breached on the first day of early voting in the 2006 election, which included a now-disputed race for a seat in the US House of Representatives.
The attack code was a variant of the infamous Slammer worm that penetrated the county's server, which unbelievably, was missing five years worth of security patches, according to an article painstakingly reported by investigative journalist Brad Friedman. The breach crippled the county's entire network, including the electronic voting system, where net connectivity was disrupted for two hours. Those trying to vote during the outage were turned away.

Jump to the rest of this predictably sad florida voting scandle.