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Flaw in Florida E-Voting Machines

Posted by michael on from the repeat-of-2000-coming-up dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Looks like there are more problems with the new e-voting machines. How will they ever be ready in time for the November elections?"

2 of 438 comments (clear)

  1. Debating standards after voting is gaming the sys by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Trying to "debate" the standards for what does and does not constitute a valid vote after the votes are cast is nothing more than trying to game the system.

    Face it - the laws in place in Florida before the election would not have allowed Gore to win. So he tried to lawyer his way to the White House - with the help of the notoriously leftist Florida Supreme Court, which utterly ignored statutory law, case law, and the Constitution of the United States in an attempt to help Gore.

  2. Now I am convinced there are bad moderators by beforewisdom · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Now I am convinced there are bad moderators.

    My post above was a comment about hoping Florida would use different voting machines.

    The topic I was posting was AN ARTICLE ABOUT VOTING MACHINE PROBLEMS IN FLORIDA.

    I was moderated down as being "off topic".

    In other words, someone abused their temporary moderator's privelage to censor an opinion that they didn't like.......not an opinion that was off topic to the thread.

    I didn't know that Judge Scalia had time to read slashdot!

    I'm impressed