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Re-Vote Likely After E-Vote Data Mishandling

Posted by samzenpus on from the technology-makes-life-easier dept.

davecb writes "A California judge is likely to order a Berkeley city initiative back on the ballot because of local officials' mishandling of electronic voting machine data. A recount was not possible because the city failed to share necessary voting records, a violation of election laws. In a preliminary ruling Thursday, Judge Winifred Smith of the Alameda County Superior Court indicated she would nullify the defeat of a medical marijuana proposal in Berkeley in 2004 and order the measure put back on the ballot in a later election."

6 of 172 comments (clear)

  1. Medical marijuana bill defeted in Berkeley? by Anonymous+Crowhead · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's unpossible!

    1. Re:Medical marijuana bill defeted in Berkeley? by ChatHuant · · Score: 4, Funny

      That's unpossible!

      For some reason the turn-out of pro voters was unexpectedly low.

  2. They need to learn some voting etiquitte by sokoban · · Score: 3, Funny

    > the city failed to share necessary voting records

    Dude, quit bogarting all the voting records. Count, count, pass.

    And always to the left.

    --
    09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 is the magic number.
  3. Failure of process on a Medical Marijuana bill? by TheTranceFan · · Score: 5, Funny

    What were they smoking?

  4. Re:Keep Voting Until It Passes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    For God's Sake, Legalize it already.
    Keep your god out of our canabis, you fucking eichmann

  5. True Random Number Generator Goes Online..Hmmm by AmigaHeretic · · Score: 2, Funny

    If we combine this article with the previous article and hook the E-Voting machine up with the new Online Random Number generator maybe we'd have a better luck a selecting "elected" officials. Lord knows it seems like the public can't do it right. Just a thought I had seeing the articles right next to each other.

    Or maybe that's how the E-Voting machines already work? :)