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New Closed Source Voting Systems Malfunction

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the buchanan-wins-again dept.

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.

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  4. Open Source Deemed To Be 100% Bug Free!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Linux Zealots everywhere will mark the September 11th Anniversary of the World Trade Center Attacks, by claiming that all Open Source software is, and will always be, 100% bug free. A spokeman/chipendale for The OS Struggle, commented that, "Open Source solutions are definately the wave of the future. If the World Trade Center, and all Boeing 737s had been developed under an Open Source model, the attacks simply would not of happened. Open Source would not crash like that, and is evidence that Microsoft was behind the 9/11 attacks in the 1st place."

  5. mod -1 clueless by RatBastard · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Try reading for comprehension. It will make you look less like a total ass.

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