Not a code monkey but an actual non-human, hairy-ass, banana-eating, poop-throwing monkey altered the results of a Dieold electronic voting machine.

Fox has the story: Smack the Monkey.

While computer geeks have railed against the closed-source, for-profit system for years, the public is just recently becoming aware of the major problems associated with putting your civil rights in the hands of a corporation. Learning after everything is paid for and the election less than two months away is a hell of a time to get educated.

As Cyberista's KT Cappellini succinctly described the average American citizen, we're sleepwalking toward our demise.

Where is the outrage? If anybody deserves a vigilante mob with torches and pitchforks ready to kill them, it's Diebold.

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