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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:Reminds me of Office Space... by CastrTroy · · Score: 0, Troll

    Everybody knows a proper voting system would be done in VB

    'in VB, Comments start with a "'"
    'this would be another comment line
    'of course, there's no way to block
    'groups of lines as comments,
    'which gets really annoying.

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  2. Re:What is wrong with an "X"?? by p3d0 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Doesn't scale?? So each voter needs to mark and count 20 things instead of 1. What's the problem?

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  3. Re:What is wrong with an "X"?? by p3d0 · · Score: 0, Troll

    You hit the nail on the head. Thanks for saying it so I didn't need to.

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