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Voting Machines Wreak Havoc in Maryland Elections
An anonymous reader writes, "Voting machines are wreaking havoc in Maryland elections today. From the article:
'Election Day in Montgomery County and parts of Prince George's opened in chaos and frustration this morning, as a series of problems and missteps left thousands of citizens unable to vote or forced to cast provisional ballots... Montgomery County's Board of Elections held an emergency meeting and agreed to petition the Circuit Court to extend voting times until 9 p.m.' It's simply shameful."
It looks like we are going to get a headstart on Shame '08. The midterms are going to be a mess.
What is it going to take for these chimps to realize that a voting process WITH AN AUDIT TRAIL is the only way to hold an election? People boycotting their polling sta-- oh. Wait, I think I get it now. Why pull a trigger when you can simply get away with stoking apathy...
Link.
Something smells fishy.
You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner.
Just maybe they weren't done pre-loading votes or pre-loading negatives votes yet, so the memory cards were not delivered on time?
Or maybe the vote flipping hack to insure that a specific candidate won was not finished on time?
Who will guard the guards?
"Computers have the advantage of being impartial (if that is how they're programmed) and unlikely to make mistakes"
You'd trust the impartiality and reputation of a company over that of several volunteers?
Starbucks, Harbuckle of Breath.
WHY IS ANYONE IN THEIR RIGHT MINDS USING A BLOODY COMPUTER TO DO THIS?
An appropriate choice of words. The right is using computers to count votes because it makes election fraud easier (all voting machine vendors are owned by right wingers). Though I expect they'll just deliberately misdistribute the voting machines in key states like they did in Ohio in 2004.