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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. Do the machines run slashcode? by SoCalChris · · Score: 3, Funny

    Seriously, slashdot hasn't been working right all morning.

    And the /. editors bitch about Diebold trying to cover up and ignore defects in the software...

  2. Re:Not as serious as you're making it sound... by T-Ranger · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, hell. Might as well not have elections at all, just phone up 15 or 20 people and see who they want.

  3. Re:Not as serious as you're making it sound... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    just phone up 15 or 20 people and see who they want

    Then you have to have someone reliable to call those people. I suggest Fox News, they've proven themselves to be Fair and Balanced... they would surely do a good job!