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E-voting to be a 'Train Wreck'?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the vote-malda-in-2004 dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Seattle PI has published an AP story about the problems with E-Voting. Her conclusion is that there will be so many problems with the more than 100,000 paperless voting terminals to be used in the November presidential election that the fiasco will dwarf Florida's hanging chad debacle of 2000."

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  1. First vote! by Zorilla · · Score: 5, Funny

    First vote! Oh, crap! I pressed the Buchannon button!

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    It would be cool if it didn't suck.
  2. Re:What is with this mechanized/electronic voting? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    "India just put six hundred million voters through an all-electronic election."

    Yet another reason to outsource.

  3. Re:"Is this somehow too complex for the US to use? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yeah, they stole all those votes from Nader, costing him the election. bastards.

  4. Re:Where's the right? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Nope, we'll get our guy in office anyway. Actually, with e-voting it's easier :-)

  5. code to voting machines, how hard? by SQLz · · Score: 4, Funny

    How hard can it be to write voting software that increments a number by 1. I mean, a damn computer can increment a number pretty fucking well, don't you think? I'm a programmer and it boggles my mind the Linux kernel could be written in a distributed manner by developers around the world but DieBold can write a program to increment a fucking number by 1.