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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."
They just touched the screen with their whole palm, and expected it to sense who they wanted to vote for :)
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If they can't figure out to push the VOTE button to count their selection, maybe they shouldn't be voting anyway...
Florida is not allowed to vote in the next federal election. Bad Florida! Bad! Go to your room!
-moitz-
Screw 'em...who cares what anyone thinks.
-122
Trouble making decisions? Just flip for it.
-Voter walks into botth, gets confused by the curtain, ends up out side the both, gets it right on the third try.
-Voter touches the button, gets the one they where aiming for on the second try.
-Voter forgets to click the "VOTE" button that commits their choice.
-Voter tackles the curtain problem again, getting out of the booth on only the second try.
-Voting machine does nothing becuase its only as smart as its users.
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As a loyal slashbot, I don't know what position to take on this yet. Tonight, I will go through and get all my opinions from the +5 moderated comments in this thread, and will laugh derisively at the unmoderated and downmodded opinions, as they are clearly foolish and wrong.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
is to provide a copy of Voting for Dummies at each voting booth. Or they could just use a machine the prints a final, easy to read, ballot. Imagine that.
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And I suppose you want to count those votes by hand, too? I can just see it...
... 102,605 ... 102,6. Uh? Crap!!! ... 2 ... 3 ..."
"102,604
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You can't do that, people might feel peer pressure when they see the smudges and scratches all over one candidates name. That would not be fair! Just imagine you are in the booth and the weight of thousands before you bearing down upon you to just touch the icky spot on the screen just like they did... How disturbing...
-Wade
What would you like to do?
if (vote=="Democrat") {
vote=null;
}
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It has been verified that faulty citizen failure has resulted in at least one contested Florida election. It's no surprise. Some of these citizens have been around since the '20s! They cost a fortune to maintain. Clearly we can do better than this.
I recommend replacing them. Shiny new electronic voters would reduce the problem of incorrect vote selection, as well as ambiguous ballots, or the inability to understand clear, spoken or written English. Computers are far better at binary selection than senior citizens, so they should have no problem.
In other news, thousands of Florida citizens went to Vegas for their Spring Break holiday, but when faced with the challenge of putting a coin into a machine and pulling the lever they accidentally voted for Pat Buchanan.
That's why we should amend the Constitution to allow only people of, at least, basic intelligence to vote. I mean think about it, if they're not intelligent enough to figure out a system for placing a vote - as complicated as it may be, there are instructions always provided - how much weight do you want to give their opinion on who should be in power?
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''We always pray for large margins,'' said Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections Theresa LePore.
Keep using unverifiable voting machines and you'll get your wish. G W will win by a landslide this time.
Pavlov wouldn't be so famous if he'd used a can opener instead of a bell.
Thank you for your vote for the Democratic Party.
(Before people start flaming, that was a J-O-K-E.)
It's so bad in Florida now I think the only way to make it work again is to give voter's a crayon so they can circle a picture of the person they like with the name below the picture.
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Vote Republican, hope to cash in on the ripoff of everybody "else", deny any personal responsibility when confronted, and get screwed with practically all "the rest of us" when the politico gets power, and doesn't need you anymore within your delusional event horizon. Are you better off than you were 4 years ago?
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Goddamit, experts agree that flames aren't required to be reaonable or logical! In fact, they work better if they aren't.
Actually I believe the press did a hand count and they concluded that Bush really one. So I guess even though Gore one the "paaaaahhhhpular vote," he didn't win the one that really matters.
And the electoral vote does matter to equally represent people otherwise canidates would only campaign in large cities and those bumpkins in the midwest and the south would never been considered or cared about.
So we're discusing the 2000 Presidential Election here, right?