[sf-lug] OT: Problems voting for Obama in California?

[Kristian Erik Hermansen]

On Feb 5, 2008 4:36 PM, Charles N Wyble <charles at thewybles.com> wrote:
> Has this been verified? Is it an urban legend?

I think the data speaks for itself :-)
http://www.douglaskarr.com/2007/06/23/2008-elections-by-server/

khermans at khermans-laptop:/tmp$ cat running.txt
    * Joe Biden (Democrat) - Linux, Zope by Interlix
    * Hillary Clinton (Democrat) - Windows Server 2003,
Microsoft-IIS/6.0 by Paul Holcomb
    * Christopher Dodd (Democrat) - FreeBSD, Apache by pair Networks
    * John Edwards (Democrat) - Linux, Apache by Plus Three
    * Mike Gravel (Democrat) - Linux, Apache by Voxel Dot Net, Inc.
    * Dennis Kucinich (Democrat) - Linux, Apache by New Age Consulting
    * Barack Obama (Democrat) - FreeBSD, Apache by pair Networks
    * Bill Richardson (Democrat) - Linux, Zope by Interlix
    * Wesley Clark (Democrat) - Linux, Apache by Voxel Dot Net, Inc.
    * Al Gore (Democrat) - Linux, Apache by Rackspace
    * Sam Brownback (Republican) - Windows Server 2003,
Microsoft-IIS/6.0 by RackForce Hosting, Inc.
    * Jim Gilmore (Republican) - Linux, Apache by 1&1 Internet, Inc.
    * Rudy Giuliani (Republican) - Linux, Apache by RackSpace
    * Mike Huckabee (Republican) - Windows Server 2003,
Microsoft-IIS/6.0 by LNH Inc.
    * Duncun Hunter (Republican) - Windows Server 2003,
Microsoft-IIS/6.0 by Individual
    * John McCain (Republican) - Windows Server 2003,
Microsoft-IIS/6.0 by Smartech Corporation
    * Ron Paul (Republican) - Linux, Apache by Rackspace
    * Mitt Romney (Republican) - Linux, Apache by Rackspace
    * Tom Tancredo (Republican) - Windows Server 2003,
Microsoft-IIS/6.0 by Interland
    * Fred Thompson (Republican) - Windows Server 2003,
Microsoft-IIS/6.0 by LNH Inc.
    * Tommy Thompson (Republican) - Windows Server 2003,
Microsoft-IIS/6.0 by Time Warner Telecom, Inc.
    * Chuck Hagel (Republican) - Windows Server 2003,
Microsoft-IIS/6.0 by Individual
    * Newt Gingrich (Republican) - Windows Server 2003,
Microsoft-IIS/6.0 by Smartech Corporation

khermans at khermans-laptop:/tmp$ grep -i "democrat" running.txt | grep
-i -c "linux"
7
khermans at khermans-laptop:/tmp$ grep -i "democrat" running.txt | grep
-i -c "freebsd"
2
khermans at khermans-laptop:/tmp$ grep -i "democrat" running.txt | grep
-i -c "windows"
1
khermans at khermans-laptop:/tmp$ grep -i "republican" running.txt | grep
-i -c "linux"
4
khermans at khermans-laptop:/tmp$ grep -i "republican" running.txt | grep
-i -c "freebsd"
0
khermans at khermans-laptop:/tmp$ grep -i "republican" running.txt | grep
-i -c "windows"
9
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Kristian Erik Hermansen
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