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New Closed Source Voting Systems Malfunction
LowellPorter writes "Miami-Dade and Broward counties are having voting problems. After the 2000 election problems, new voting methods were installed including touch screen technology. Some times the problems were with workers not showing up, poor training, or mechanical problems. It doesn't look like they cleaned up the system there." Not all of the problems mentioned in the article are due to the new proprietary voting machines, but many of them are.
Yes, but if the machine worked, then people would actually be able to vote for the correct candidate, and MY BROTHER WOULDN'T WIN THE FREAKING ELECTION!
You can't manipulate the political system and steal votes if everything 'works' correctly!
Hell, if the system worked correctly, AL GORE might be in office, and you know what kind of hell that would bring upon the world!
Its those darn conversions again, going from binary to decimal!
Ahem: This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane.
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
45,128 votes for Bush
45,132 votes for Gore
2,000,000 write in votes for Bill Gates.
Wha?
JET Program: see Japan, meet intere
We need to give up on these fancy high-tech solutions that are so buggy and difficult for old people to use. Go with what they know, and what works...
Make the ballots like bingo cards. Give each voter a card and a daubber. I've seen grandmothers that can't work a toaster, but they can turn around and fill in 10 different bingo cards at a high rate. Not to mention that you almost never see them make a mistake filling out one of those cards.
This would solve the whole boot problem and software bugs. The logistics of it would be no different than the old punch cards, but with a lower chad pregnancy rate.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Laziness is the father.
By mid-morning, countless people voted without difficulty....
Countless, eh? You mean you can't count the number of people voting? Not encouraging in my mind.
A hack is just an idiom waiting for wider use.
Maybe they need to make the voting machine's interface look like video poker - help the older folks over their confusion...
All my money went to Nigeria and all I got was this lousy sig. . .
If you had the financial backing to do this, why waste your time with doing it? Just buy whichever politician won. It's easier and far more socially acceptable.
Game... blouses.