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Comment by mschuster91 | Hacker News Reader

Doesn't surprise me the least. Where money is, there is fraud, and where there is fraud, there is money. The US have plenty of both.

The problem is, how can we as programmers/IT field guys react when we are e.g. coerced into rigging systems?

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how can we as programmers/IT field guys react when we are e.g. coerced into rigging systems

Refuse?

Forward the request to the nearest newspaper too.

I believe this is the kind of request that's usually delivered verbally only.

In the US, people have mortgages on houses to pay etc., so refusing might not be an option.

So in essence, financial security beats doing "the right thing", is that what you're saying?

I am not sure what I'd do, given I had a family to take care of and a house to pay-up-or-else, and I hope I will never be faced with such a decision.

Well that I can understand (I have a family to consider), but I'd like to think I'd be moral/insane enough to raise the stinky pinky at the request.

Make it only work per bad request until Election Day? An anti logic bomb, I'm sure there's a better word for that.

Actually, especially given the fact that US organizations regularly step over the boundaries of the law: What would you do when a government agency orders you to rig stuff and threatens you with judicial problems for disclosure or non-compliance?

Thank God nothing like this happened in Venezuela.

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