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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. how hard is it? by SQLz · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I mean,its not like responding to an event and incrementing a variable takes that much programming skill. The only reason these machines are having these problems is becase they are designed to allow people to rig elections. At best, its simply bad programming but I don't believe that.