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E-Voting Glitch: 19,000 Voters, 144,000 Votes

Posted by timothy on from the that's-some-glitch dept.

nick_davison writes "The Indianapolis Star is reporting the latest case of 'interesting' E-voting results. Tuesday's Boone County election, using MicroVote software returned 144,000 votes from 19,000 registered voters. After much panicking and tracking down the bug, the actual number of votes turned out as 5,352. With yet another mistake, does anyone still trust closed-source electronic voting?"

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  1. Re:What is wrong with an "X"?? by althalus1969 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I think it's about time, the UN sends some Inspectors to these "elections". You people seem to have a few very serious problems with voting, counting and general election security.

  2. Re:What is wrong with an "X"?? by Chris+Mattern · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yes, he is. It is possible that the things government spending *buys* are good things, and that they are things sufficiently good to be worth the spending. But government spending, in and of itself, is always a bad thing.

    Chris Mattern