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How To Lose An Election

Posted by timothy on from the do-math-in-your-head dept.

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.

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  1. Ha! by Malicious · · Score: 3, Funny

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

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  2. To err is human... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    To really fuck something up, that takes a computer.

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  3. from nyt by nFriedly · · Score: 3, Funny
    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
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  4. Re:It's teh correct decision. by zentigger · · Score: 3, Funny

    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...

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    the above is my personal opinion and does not necessarily reflect that of the little voices in my head