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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?"

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  1. Voter Purge by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    What scares me about all of this is that four years after the last election, it is still not common knowledge that Florida purged thousands of people from the electoral role illegally. This was admitted by Choicepoint in a special congressional hearing. Why Jeb Bush is still Governor in Florida I'll never know. (Notice that I'm saying nothing about the hanging chads business, that's a different kettle fish altogether).

    What really amazes me though is that it's happening again and no-one is doing a thing! Why in god's name doesnt the media in your country do it's job? I'm absolutely amazed that you're allowing this to happen again.

  2. In related news... by mko · · Score: 5, Informative
    Voting machines are "cheap and untrustworthy" compared to slot machines.

    Gambling on Voting (NY Times Op-Ed today)

    I don't understand this run on machines anyway, don't paper ballots scale perfectly? Counting votes can be arbitrarily parallelized after all.