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E-Voting Problems Are Mostly User Error, Says ITAA
grcumb writes "InfoWorld is carrying a story today which mentions a press kit being distributed by the Information Technology Association of America. Its purpose? To 'help journalists put election equipment-related snafus in context.' Most e-voting problems, they insist, are [l]user issues, where people who don't know how to deal with the new technology cause delays as they seek assistance. They don't seem to feel the need for journalists to understand basic system design issues (like making sure your computer and human processes work), why testing didn't identify these problems, nor why this is better than paper ballots."
... and many of the don't know the difference between have and has, evidently.
Screw you all! I'm off to the pub
it was condescending and insulting to the journalists
That wouldn't be because most journalists are morons, now would it?
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
What do you expect when P. Diddy is saying "We have to teach people how to register?" C'mon! It's time for people to take some responsibility. Granted, you can do nothing about flaky machines and buggy software, but that whole "hanging chad" and butterfly ballot BS was user error. If you have to be taught how to walk over and ask an election official a question, DON'T VOTE! Stupid people shouldn't vote....period!
Actually I heard that the problem in 2000 was that Jeb Bush and Katherine Harris illegally struck tens of thousands of black voters off the rolls, voters who would have voted overwhelmingly Democrat. But then I don't have access to the US lapdog media so I have to rely on sources like the BBC, the Guardian, the Independent and Greg Palast.
--- Hot Shot City is particularly good.
Only the media made a big deal about butterfly ballots in Florida. The truth is, that was just a media smokescreen for the real issue, the disenfranchisment of thousands of black voters in Florida. People who showed up on election day and were told that they couldn't vote, or were notified right before the election and then forced to go through a lengthy, complicated process to have the rights which were stolen from them restored, if they were lucky.
If it weren't for this, George Bush simply wouldn't be president today. A little more serious than some pregnant chads.
The Christian Science Monitor is an excellent independent news source. They don't rely on wire services and have their own reporters scattered through a dozen countries. And despite what their name suggests, their reporting is completely unreligious.
Wait, what is this? Why should *anybody* be nice to journalists? Journalists are entirely self-serving! Journalists need to be set straight every now and then, lately they have gone too far with the lies and exaggerations.
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...and crap is flying.
Will tin foil protect me from that?
What?