San Diego Diebold Poll Worker's Report Posted

James Renken writes "I was a poll worker in San Diego for this year's primary election. It was the county's first using Diebold voting machines, and as you may have heard, we ran into some problems! My full report of the goings-on can be found at Live from the Nuke Free Zone. Enjoy!"

Comments

Real Time

[mao che minh]

Like Bill Maher said: "Voting with computers used to sound cool and futuristic, back in 1969. Today we know that computers are just big fuck-up machines."

Re:Election

[Santos L. Halper]

Wouldn't it be your fingers working faster than your brain?

Diebold ATMs @ CMU go crazy!

[Anonymous Coward]

Videos and photos of one of Diebold's ATM machines at Carnegie Mellon playing Beethoven today might amuse you.

Re:Security by Confusion?

[R33MSpec]

"...the worst case here is swearing in a losing candidate..."

George W. just called and wants to meet with you to discuss your idea.

Diebold ATMs about as crappy too

[gad_zuki!]

Here are some photos of a crashed Diebold ATM from National City bank. Yep, that's the windows desktop and the college kids who took the photos were controling the machine. Be afraid.

Yeah but

[fusker]

Does the Diebold do anything to to correct the traditionally crappy choice in candidates? Maybe if it let you create your own cadidate, position by position. Two parts "Simone", a dash of Hal, hmmmm....