How To Lose An Election

smooth wombat writes "CNN has posted a story to their site about electronic votes from Miami-Dade County's first widespread use of touchscreen voting machines that were lost due to a computer crash.: 'The malfunction was made public after the Miami-Dade Election Reform Coalition, a citizen's group, requested all data from the 2002 gubernatorial primary between Democratic candidates Janet Reno and Bill McBride.' Other groups are challenging a state rule preventing counties that use the machines from conducting manual recounts from them." Reader fatwater adds a link to the New York Times' coverage.

Comments

Ha!

[Malicious]

Raise your hand if you're surprised to see 'Computer Crash' and the Surname 'McBride' in the same headline.

To err is human...

[Anonymous Coward]

To really fuck something up, that takes a computer.

-- Anonymous

Re:Anybody else read that as...

[Dutchmaan]

' ..."How To Lose An Erection"???'

Nope...just you.

BSOD

[Anonymous Coward]

Blue screen of disenfranchisement.

from nyt

[nFriedly]

quote from the NYT article:

"it may very well be too late - Florida is headed toward being the next Florida,"

that sounds just like something that would come from florida

So *DO* something, pussies!

[Anonymous Coward]

You blather and blather, but you never do anything. March on the Diebold home office and pelt the CEO with rocks and garbage. Torch a voting machine factory after hours. Get up off your pasty asses and do something, you girlie men.

That should help you out!

[Pastis]

Search Ugly Woman on Google (safe off).

You're welcome.

Ouch you meant eLection.

Sorry man. Don't know about that. I guess getting caught with one of these beauties before being in the oval circle would do the job :)

A classic case...

[Bull999999]

It's interesting how the article starts out with a link to CNN.com.

This is a classic case of "Don't trust the mass media except when there's an article that I agree with, in which case, trust the mass media".

According to the ./ logic (Check out the Turner thread), CNN is owned by an evil right-wing corporation and it only spreades right-wing lies like the rest. So since the story about election machines losing votes are right-wing lies, just as the reports of American soldiers and Iraqis dying everyday are right-wing lies, when actually, the soldiers and Iraqis are having daily picnics at the flower gardens.

Re:This is why there need to be reform

[tsm_sf]

I'd also add in that if you (in the general) are receiving federal handouts you should not be able to vote.

What if I only work for a goverment contractor, and don't actually own the company?

How to Lose an Erection

[radimvice]

At first glance I read the story headline as 'How to Lose an Erection'...
Although I suppose reading any story involving Janet Reno would be pretty effective there as well.

Re:It's teh correct decision.

[zentigger]

Obviously, that would be a waste of time - humans counting printouts of what's in the database will be less accurate than just taking the total from the database.

Thats right! Because there is no way that a programming error could possibly result in an incorrect tally...

Re:No recounts in districts with touchscreen votin

[Anonymous Coward]

Looking at your current president either one of two things are possible:

1. the voting instructions are highly confusing.

2. you guys are all really dumb