Vote Manipulation! "Serious Candidate" Kempite Exposed!

We interrupt our usual Week in Review to deliver the following article of the utmost importance. Part of the purpose of this blog is to deliver the news in a readable medium, in a way so any candidate who peruses here can get a real bead on what happens in the U4Prez world. I write this so you don't have to dig through several comment threads and rely on other candidates who don't quite know either what's going on. It is such a bombshell, that the first word from the moderator on the subject is the word Boom.

*From u4prez on 09/15/2007 02:47 am
"BOOOM! Candidate Copulate exposes voter manipulation scheme. It turns out one of our top candidates was rerouting votes of a 1 and changing them to a 10. Brilliant strategy, but one step behind Copulate. Ouch!!! The candidate has been fined a whopping 5000 ratings points.
Thanks to Cop for figuring it out.
This is the tenth case of voter manipulation we've found this week. 7 of them resulted in account deletions (all related to trying to hack our site internally). Most were mild, but this one was pretty big."

That candidate was Kempite.

And yes, I plan to gloat. Fasten your seatbelts.

Now, I didn't say anything when I watched Kempite's score inflate and deflate rapidly over the summer. A couple of candidates asked me about it, and I would watch for a few days here and there, on Monday he would be in the 8th position in the Top Republicans, by Thursday he was #3. At that point, he was boasting over 4000 votes, so I knew, at that point, even in June, something was going on, but I couldn't prove it, so I just bided my time.

Pull out your calculators along with me, and let's do the math. Let's say a candidate has 5000 votes, with a rating of 8.000. In order to move your total to 8.100, just a single tenth of a point, you would need 264 10's, without a single 1 (A raw score of 42640, divided by 5264 votes, equals a rating of 8.1003). And yet, there have been rumors and reports about Kempite bouncing up and down everywhere between 7.9 and 8.5. Logistically speaking, it would be impossible, when you consider Kempite never did have the squeaky clean reputation he thinks you're stupid enough to think he had all along. Look around, just on this blog, which is still the hottest item in the U4Prez world, there are a handful of candidates who would give him a 1, if they voted for him at all. With the occasional break-out of anonymous 1's coming around every so often like a reoccurring rash, it boggles the mind how a candidate with 5000 votes can gain a tenth in their rating, seemingly at whim.

At U4Prez, by the time you get to about 1000 votes, you're pretty much locked into where you're going to be in terms of a rating.

As of this writing, Kempite has 9,465 votes (to give you an idea of how much that is, I quit with 4,269 votes, from March 17 to August 8, which, in 176 days as a candidate, averages out to be 24.25 votes a day, which I think is the norm for most all of the popular candidates, and I invite you to do the math for yourself, the more popular candidates who have been around can generate about 25-30 votes a day), which, from his starting date of February 20 to September 15, means he could generate almost 46 VOTES A DAY, every day, for all 207 days of his being here.

I urge you to make the same comparisons with MejicoJohn, Copulate, Mduminiak, kt2020, and any other candidate who has been here since at least March, and you will find a gross exaggeration in Kempite's ability to produce votes, as opposed to everyone else.

At the time, I dismissed it. Kempite was one of the truly elite players this summer, I figured he had a trick up his sleeve, he had access to votes somewhere on the web which, were the rest of us able to discover, our vote totals would go through the roof as well. I had no way of proving wrong-doing, so it was something I just kept under my hat.

Until now, when I read the news from Eric Gurr himself on U4Prez.

Do you all want to know how he did it?

Copulate deserves all the credit for discovering this. I am no IT expert, so I am sure I'm going to botch it in trying to tell you how Kempite manipulated his rating, his votes, his raw score, and ultimately U4Prez itself.

Kempite was using something called an "IP rerouter". I still don't quite understand how it works, but through this, he is able to take all the 1's he received and turn them into 10's. Arch, you were wondering just last night how his score goes up when you vote him a 1, well, THIS is what he uses. Anyone with a little knowledge in the IT department, feel free to expound on this. Where certain candidates are concerned, he has been able to take those 1's you give him and turn them into 10's.

Kempite was able to manipulate these scores my merely placing an IP rerouter into the wording of his stat counter.

Some of you, I know you have enough experience with what I'm talking about, I'm hoping you will put your two-cents-worth into this, so we can openly talk about it, and we can do a better job of exposing this form of cheating the moment we see it, and not let it go unchecked for God knows how long.

That's exactly what this is. Cheating. This isn't creativity, this isn't finding a new wrinkle in the old programming. This is the real deal, folks. For those of you who are true fans of democracy, what Kempite did was manipulate the system entirely for his own advantage. He went outside of the rules.

I will be amazed and impressed if anyone presses me too hard on this issue. I defy Iron Lady to defend Kempite now. Please, Hard Right, I would love to hear you spin this one to your advantage. I've already seen BigDaddy calling out Copulate for being a whistleblower, if he could rat out Kempite, surely he must be doing it himself. That's part of why this is making me laugh so loud, because not long ago, Copulate actually WAS being accused of manipulating his scores, Kempite being one of those accusing him the loudest.

I am also wondering, just how many members of the Hard Right are using this same tactic? I do remember, within the last month, Hawk and Mduminiak each winning runoffs in which, according to the moderators, they won because of a barrage of 1's. With the ringleader being caught red-handed, I don't think it's too far a reach to think other members of the Hard Right cabal also play this game. If that's the case, I am urging those with some IT sensibilities to take a good long hard look at those two, and pretty much anyone who is close with Kempite. And if those who previously defended him to the death suddenly come up tainted, they should suffer the same fate as their master.

Some of you out there hate my guts, and that's fine, if you don't have enemies, you don't have character. But what Kempite was caught doing validates pretty much everything I've been talking about in terms of vote count transparency, corruption, favoritism, and the "fix". THIS is what I've been talking about all along. THIS is why I quit, and why I won't return until after the general election. This is also why several other candidates have quit, because this Hard Right cabal has been allowed to use U4Prez as their little 'hood, beating down anyone who speaks up against them, without fear of reprocussion from the moderators. They see a website where freepers run rampant, where all elections are frauds, and where the creator, up until now, didn't seem to care. My gripes have all been confirmed.

Call me a whore or a slut or whatever you wish. Question my morals. Call me out when you think I'm wrong. But make no mistake about it, my integrity is still intact. I still have never betrayed a PM, whereas all PM's are fair game when placed in Kempite's corrupt hands. I have never had to manipulate my score unethically to get ahead. Again, question my tactics, but everything I did, I was upfront about, direct, never hid from anything I did, never made excuses.

So yes, Anthony Pellegrino, this whore has more integrity in her middle finger than you have in your whole body.

You of all people should know better than to put yourself on a pedestal, because it's a tough fall when you get knocked off. By trying this campaign of being a "serious candidate" with the serious answers, you put yourself up there. I didn't tell you to act like a pompous dickhead. That one is on you. There is no one here who will ever take you serious again, and if they do, sometime down the road, there's a few newbies who don't know, trust me, they will. If ever they write a history book on the U4Prez world, this article will be in there.

I wonder what Tony Nasso must be thinking right now, looking down on us from heaven. Do you think he would have approved of such cheating? Do you really think he wants your name associated with his anymore? Maybe you should roll his memorial page out again, just to make sure there's anything more in that well you can suck up and use. Maybe there's one last brownie point you can leech off of Tony4Prez, what do you have to lose at this point?

Pretty much everything I've ever said on the subject of Kempite has come to fruition. He is a backstabbing bully who can't be trusted with the slightest bit of confidentiality. He will use any bloody thing at his disposal to boost his own reputation, from dead candidates to apparently the U4Prez voting system itself. He cares for nothing but the feeding of his own ego.

Everything he has worked so hard for means absolutely nothing. What good is it to solve the problems in a democratic society, when democracy itself is something you seek to defile? What good is it to talk about American principles, when the most sacred principle itself, the belief in a fair and just voting system, is just the punchline to a joke in Kempite's mind? Why bother calling yourself a "serious candidate" when you are obviously the least serious candidate here?

I take very little pleasure in this. I never wanted to be right in the "fix", in the charges of favoritism I levied against Eric Gurr. But how tragically correct is it now, the thought that, while Eric and Kempite were getting it on on some dumb little talk show, while Kempite was shaking Eric's hand with his right hand, he was sticking him in the back with a knife in the other? Was Kempite actually looking Eric in the eye and saying all was well, while at the same time manipulating the already suspect voting system to his advantage? I cried bloody murder when I saw it happening, and I was shooed away like the psychobitch many would love to portray me to be. I feel completely validated, I think many might question the methods by which I sought to continue to apply pressure to U4Prez to open its eyes to the real problems it's facing. But in the recent turn of events, I don't think many will challenge me and call me wrong.

The only tough question left is, how deep does this go? I don't want to call for a witch-hunt, but I have already said every single election in the history of U4Prez is a sham. Let me make this perfectly clear, and this goes to friend as well as for. Not a single election in U4Prez history is valid. I do not recognize a single primary winner or party leader, including myself and my own set of victories. None of it counts. I'm sorry, but that primary win you covet, apparently Kempite thought so little of you that he sought to corrupt the entire system for his own masturbatory pleasures. It's now worthless. Oh, sure, with Kempite out of the way, you might actually win President, but so what? You won your primary through a corrupt system, a system easily manipulated and apparently bastardized for months on end. Why should anyone honor your win, after how Kempite trashed the place?

If anyone else is doing the same thing, anyone else in the Hard Right who thought they could get away with it, I'm telling you now, every day you continue to try to play this game of vote manipulation, you are bringing U4Prez that much closer to its own death. Come clean. Everyone with the slightest bit of IT experience is probably all over your profiles as we speak, watching your ratings chance on a minute-to-minute basis, voting you 1's and seeing if your rating also rises. You would be doing everyone a favor in admitting it to Eric and accepting whatever punishment is warranted.

Some get kicked out of here because they flame and curse their minds away. Personally, I feel this is far worse. I will never advocate the termination of a fellow candidate, but maybe, with Kempite remaining, he can be set up as the example, as the candidate most opposite what America stands for. The perfect traitor. Someone willing to destroy the site for his own ego. When new candidates come up to me in the future and ask me for a little advice, I will tell them of Kempite, I will point to his profile, I will direct them to all his accomplishments, and then I will tell them it all turned to shit, because Kempite took the essence of democracy itself, and wiped his ass with it.

Now, more than ever, U4Prez needs a Constitution, a framework through which this kind of thing becomes harder to pull off.

Kempite wins a recent video contest because he talks about being a "serious candidate". He has a lot of fucking nerve, to accept the prize with one hand, as he stabs U4Prez in the back with the other.

Kempite didn't betray me, I knew what he was a LONG time ago. Kempite betrayed U4Prez and a whole lot of people who went to bat for him. If they continue to defend him, if Iron Lady ever defends his name when someone brings his crimes up, then they go beyond blind loyalty, they transcend blind loyalty into complete stupidity.

For something positive, I thank Eric Gurr for sending a strong message, that such games will not be tolerated. I'm sorry I had to become a raving bitch out in the wilderness for this to come to pass, but considering how he has reprimanded ten people for hacking and manipulation, it is clear, if nothing else, he is tired of the idea of U4Prez being seen as a corrupt, neglected site, where favorites get away with what they want, and the creator will let it all go. Had this happened six weeks ago, maybe things would be completely different.

BigDaddy yips ar everyone's ankles, claiming he GOT Olivia, GOT Copulate, with his usual NAH-na-NAH-NAH appeal. BigDaddy, you're not in Copulate's league. You are a homophobe trying to play GOTCHA games concerning your perceived homphobia in others, how tragic is that! We're trying to stop these harmful games, not perpetuate them. U4Prez will die if it descends to BigDaddy's level. What Kempite did hits to the core of U4Prez itself. Bagging on me because you question my motives for voting how I did in 2004, are you really going to sit there and call that a GOTCHA? If all you care about is the GOTCHA, then I declare Copulate the winner, BigDaddy, he took out the biggest name at U4Prez, but he didn't do it with gameplaying or nagging or namecalling, no; he used the truth. If this is truly a game to you, BigDaddy, Copulate's scored a touchdown, you lose, game over. For once, the good guys win.

It will be interesting to see who lands where in the Hard Right, and who will be the first to pat Kempite on the back.

As for me, Kempite, keep my name out of your fucking mouth! I told you guys over and over and OVER again, you have bigger things to worry about than how Olivia runs her campaign, how Olivia runs the Independent Party, how Olivia runs her mouth. You got caught, and if anyone else in your clique is doing it, they will be caught as well. You have no credibility left. All those who rely on you for their status will either distance themselves with you, or fall alongside with your down the crapper of mediocrity, and you will cease to ever be taken seriously ever again. Anytime you ever talk about that whore Olivia again, everyone will look at you, and say, didn't you whore yourself out to turn a few 1's into 10's?

The very first soundbite I ever put on my profile was, the difference between me and the rest in Washington is I'll tell you up front I'm a prostitute. I wonder which whore this place will appreciate more from this point on.