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Buggy Voting Machines

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the spelling-it-out-for-the-people dept.

dkleinsc writes "The NYTimes is running an article arguing in layman's terms that voting machines are inherently buggier (Sperm sample required. Sorry ladies) than most software systems because they are not tested properly. A fun quote: "Extensive discussions are under way at sites like VerifiedVoting.org, CalVoter.org, and the "news for nerds" forum Slashdot.org about inexpensive, practical ways to make automated voting as reliable as, say, buying books online. Their recommendations make sense."" We makese sense? Wah?

2 of 471 comments (clear)

  1. Re:China: Deliberately Rigged Voting Machines by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll
    yeah well here in america actually GW won fair and square.

    Yeah well here in American, how would you know?

    i think we hold the most transparent election process in the world

    And no doubt that Saddam was directly responsible for 9/11 and that WMD are still hidden in Iraq. I have no problem with Bush winning fair and square --- if the majority of Americans want a fundamentalist idiot for president, so be it. But with buggy, unreliable, completely unverifiable voting machines, there is absolutely no way to tell. "Voting" on Nov 2 was a Third World joke.

  2. Sick and Tired. by Fantastic+Lad · · Score: 0, Troll
    I'm getting sick and tired of conspiracy theorists on Slashdot.

    Rationalism.

    The trouble lies only half with the psychopath. The other half lies with those who do backflips in order to rationalize the psyschopath's insane & destructive behavior.

    The United States is going down the flusher; economically, militarily, socially, politically. You name it, Bush is deliberately trashing his country, and he's only getting started. It takes work to do so much damage so quickly.

    --You voted for somebody you didn't like simply in order to vote against Bush, so you obviously recognize on some level what kind of specimen Bush is. If that is so, then what on earth makes you think he is honest and well-meaning enough to not to attempt to corrupt an election?

    As 'sick and tired' as you may feel, to pretend that the current course of the U.S. is, -or ever was- in the hands of voters is a product of naivete. --But if that is too alarming thought for a fragile sense of reality, then sure, go back to the rationalist's pretend world where Television News always tells the truth, Terrorists are not encouraged by those with stock in the arms industry, (like the Bushes), those Anthrax spores didn't originate from a U.S. military lab, Flu shots are good for you, and Wellstone's plane went down accidentally. And where Bush would never, never cheat to win an election.

    Stupid people are the reason the world is going to hell. Thank you for your contribution.


    -FL