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."

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Sorry I don't care about your vote

[Stonent1]

If you're not smart enough to vote, I don't want your opinions on government issues.

Re:electronic voting sucks

[Zeinfeld]

Some people just will NOT vote correctly. They will NOT follow instructions. They just won't.

You are guilty of common problem amongst computer types - blame the user when the machine is at fault.

The cause of large number of Florida vote counting errors in 2000 was purely machine errors. A crease or smudge or even a speck of dust could be interpreted as a vote causing the whole ballot to be rejected.

In the white, republican voting areas the voting machines were programmed to buzz and alert the workers to the fact that there was a problem and the ballot would be put through again or the voter got a fresh ballot.

In the black areas the exact same voting machines were programmed to silently eat up the ballot and ignore the vote.

It had nothing to do with the users, it was purely the way the machines were configured.

Governor Saruman

[Doc Ruby]

With this screwup, the Republicans prove they're just an army of cannibalistic orcs. Not content with monopolizing the election "choices", they're hacking each other in public. Go, Frodo, go, wherever you are!

Re:electronic voting sucks

[Zeinfeld]

You've been reading way too much of the Weekly World News and other supermarket tabloids if you're ignorant enough to believe that machines were programmed to cheat black voters in this way. There is ZERO evidence to support this crazy notion, unless you're part of the left-wing equivalent of the black helicopter crowd.

Right, that would be why the inquiry found that there had been a deliberate attempt to keep black voters of the electoral rolls.

The way they did it was by manipulating the 'scrub lists' supposed to keep fellons from voting. Basically any voter who had the same birthday as a convicted criminal and had a name that shared four consecutive letters that were the same AND WAS THE SAME COLOR as a convicted criminal LOST THEIR VOTE.

The contract to scrub the lists went to a company whose office manager was a "close personal friend" of Katherine Harris - despite the fact that they bid over ten times more than the next most expensive bid.

I'm rarely dismissive about someone's intelligence just from such a short post, but your acceptance of this makes me question your ability to reason and to gather relevant facts.

I don't think it takes a degree in nuclear physics to see that Harris and Bush were and are corrupt, but I have one anyway.

What it takes to ignore the stench of Harken, Haliburton, Enron and the rest of the scandals of the Texan crowd I don't know, cash stuffed in brown envelopes I guess.