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Maryland Fights to Keep E-voting

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the fight-for-the-right-to-have-no-rights dept.

crystalattice writes "Apparently Maryland election officials never have computer problems. That's why they're fighting so hard to keep their Diebold e-voting machines. Washington Post reporter Marc Fisher received nothing but bad attitudes, dodges, and excuses when he attempted to discuss the issue with the state elections administration and Diebold." From the article: "I asked the state's elections administrator, Linda Lamone, whether Maryland wasn't just a bit too quick to adopt electronic voting. Doesn't the computer at your desk ever freeze up on you? 'No,' she replied. Never? 'No.' But surely people in your office have had that experience? 'No.' (Maybe we've found the solution to Maryland's voting problem: Everybody head on down to Linda Lamone's office, where the machines work 100 percent of the time.)"

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  1. Childish attitude by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    No wonder people never take slashdotters seriously...

  2. Re:Why isn't there... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    There already is, it's called 'pen and paper.' So what if the blind can't vote. If someone can't see the ballot, then they have no business voting anyways.

    GO AHEAD, FUCKING FLAME AWAY OR WASTE YOUR GOD DAMNED MOD POINTS FUCKTARDED SHITDOT SHEEPLE!!!