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Florida E-Voting Machine Fails

Posted by michael on from the hot-swap dept.

cmason32 writes "An optical voting machine memory card failed earlier today in Daytona Beach, Florida, sending election officials scrambling to secure the 13,000 paper receipts. Without the paper ballots, all 13,000 votes would have been lost. Considering how close some predict this election to be, losing that many ballots would be catastrophic. Let's hope that we won't see any more of this in the next 24 hours, and that these problems are fixed before 2006."

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  1. Only in Florida by woobieman29 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that it was in a black neighborhood......

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  2. Re:Not as serious as you're making it sound... by T-Ranger · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You are missing the point. There are greater issues then who gets elected. If you dont, or cant, understand that, I cant explain it to you.