E-voting to be a 'Train Wreck'?

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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Americans can't spell "X"

[msobkow]

Apparently the problem stems from voters in Florida and elsewhere who cannot write an "X" legibly in a half-inch square.

Just watch how many people claim the button for the candidate they wanted to vote for was broken.

But electronic voting has one important feature: it makes it easy to tamper with the results. That could well be the only thing to get Shrub "re-elected", and many will view the original Florida results as proof the election was rigged.

I don't look forward to the next few years. I see our brethren to the south starting a rather nasty and violent revolution to get rid of the corporate and government trough-feeders. The poor always outnumber the rich, but in the US they not only dramatically outnumber the rich, most of them have guns. It's going to be a lot messier than the last American Revolution was...

I know many think the idea of another revolution is a crackpot idea, but I really don't see it as avoidable. Too many of the people in power are so thoroughly clueless about how the majority of citizens live, and it's going to end up affecting everyone.