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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. Called on account of rain... by lynx_user_abroad · · Score: 5, Funny
    From the article:

    She said she suspected Hurricane Jeanne, which struck in September, may have zapped electricity and air conditioning to the room where the server was stored, causing temperatures to soar to 90 degrees or more and possibly causing the crash. The storm wiped out power to nearly 1.3 million homes and businesses throughout Florida.

    So, this election may be postponed on account of rain?

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    The thing about things we don't know is we often don't know we don't know them.

  2. The voting machine didn't crash! by PatHMV · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.