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Florida Electronic Voting Machines Crash

Posted by michael on from the blue-screen-of-election-disaster dept.

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."

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  1. Well... by Edax+Rarem · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ...According to Rumsfeld, four fifths of a country voting is ok.
    Isn't that enough?

    "He said an election could perhaps be held in "three-quarters or four-fifths of the country. But in some places you couldn't because the violence was too great"."

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    I hate my sig.
  2. Re:its funny by Astro-pilot · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The reason paper ballots are still used in most democratic countries is that the technology there has not advanced sufficiently, not because it is the easiest and the safest. The exception that proves the rule is that India recently completed its general elections which resulted in a transfer of power. India used a fully electronic voting system,- no paper ballots for a voting population of over 1 billion people. Not even the United States has dared to attempt this. Not only that, the e-voting system used in India is much more secure than the system being proposed in the USA.