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Touch Screen Voting Trouble in Florida
usn2fsu03 writes "Here we go again with
another election controversy in South Florida. Touch screen voting was used in a State House election that was won by twelve votes. Unfortunately, there were 134 people who went through the process of checking in to vote, but either did not vote or cast a vote that was not counted. Without a paper trail it is anyone's guess as to what those voters' intentions were. Obviously, there is work to be done in the Election Supervisor's office before November comes around."
Sacasim aside - have you ever studied voting systems? I have - It's a side part of one of my jobs. I collect voting data (Not the offical data - we don't do the count). Obviously, when you work with voting all the time, you start to learn about the parts you DON'T deal with
NO ONE has yet to come up with ANY voting method that relects "the wishes of the voter" than +- 2%!!! The system itself can be perfect, but it seems that the voters themselves make a mistake about 2% of the time, no matter what you do! This is why many states (see Florida for an example) have "automatic recount" rules when the race is closer than 3%. It's not a random number
-- 73 de KG2V For the Children - RKBA! "You are what you do when it counts" - the Masso
That's how you use your foes list? To mark people whose opinion you do not agree with?
Tell you what - start marking everyone as a foe because, here's a shocker, there's very little likelihood that there exists anyone whose opinions match up precisely and correctly with all of your opinions. The set of topics to have opinions on is far too large to find such a person. Everyone is your foe.
I hate liberals. If you are a liberal, do not reply.
It still doesn't detract from the fact that the elections are rigged by the corrupt politicians and administration anyway. How else can you explain that G.W. Bush won the last election. Hello people? Wakeup!
There is a reason that the Republicans are fighting for a paper trail. The 2004 election is way too important to corporate America and the NeoCons, to let a silly little thing like democracy get in the way. Fight it all you want, Bush in coming back in the '04, hook or by crook....most likely by crook.