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Maryland Tests Voting Machine, Declares Success

Dachannien writes "Capital News Service reports that the Maryland State Board of Elections has staged a test of its Diebold touch-screen voting machines in an effort to demonstrate their security and accuracy. A machine randomly selected from Maryland's voting machine warehouse was tested in a mock vote against two human vote-counting counterparts, and after counting fifty votes, the human vote counters had made several errors versus zero for the voting machine. But is this a legitimate test of the concerns of voting machine activists, or does it merely support a logical fallacy?"

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  1. In Canada they vote on paper by qw3rty · · Score: 0, Troll

    In Canada they vote on paper and count the votes by hand. They have the votes counted by the next day.

    I'm certain Bush will win everywhere these machines are used.