Florida Electronic Voting Machines Crash

crash24601 writes "For a dose of one of our favorite topics, abcnews.com is carrying the story of a tabulation machine for electronic voting crashing during testing. Naturally, this happened in Florida. They are also carrying the article Is E-Voting Fundamentally Flawed? Though mostly a lightweight rehash of issues brought up before, it is good to see it published from a mainstream source."

Comments

The voting machine didn't crash!

[PatHMV]

It was the machine which tabulates the votes that crashed. The actual were still safely recorded, untouched, on the counter keys (basically removable memory units) from the voting machines themselves.

Re:Thankfully

[ImaLamer]

There have been reports in several places of campaigners trying to register as many people as possible to vote, then tearing up and throwing away the non-republican registrations at the end of the day.

It may seem funny but it happens. Where I go to school there was a voter registration desk for one night. That night they took a measley 74 registrations out of say 1000 students.

I only wanted to change my address as I've moved into city limits and wanted to vote in the city council race (for once). Low and behold my registration never was sent in. You can check these things at the local Board of Elections website.

I pulled a few people aside in school and let them know that their registrations were likely never sent in as well. We checked, and not one made it to the Board of Elections. Two people can't vote in their first presidential election because the deadline had already passed.

I can't think of a reason for them not sending the registrations in because our student population is all over the political map.

And now time for...

[ImaLamer]

...my obligatory Diebold link.

St. Arbirix wrote:

Write the E-voting machines in assembly and make them run on the simplest RISC processor out there. Unless you plan on using the voting machines as public solitaire terminals during the off season there's no reason any complex OS or programming language should be involved in voting.

If Diebold can't even keep their money machines running how can I trust their voting machines? Man, you've got to be able to keep your "stack" (or "grip" if you prefer) in check before I can even think about trusting you.

Well, at least there will be music for the revolution (see link).