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States Throw Out Electronic Voting Machines
Davide Marney passes along an AP story about the thousands of voting machines gathering dust in warehouses across the country after states such as California, Ohio, and Florida have banned their use. Many of these machines cost $3.5K to $5K each. Local election boards are struggling to find ways to recover any of the cost of the machines, or even to recycle them. The picture in Ohio is the most confusing, as multiple court cases limit the state's options and result in a situation in which the discredited machines will nevertheless be used in the presidential election coming up in November. The state's new (Democratic) attorney general has just issued a rule banning the practice of election workers taking the machines home with them the night before elections.
Slashdot should buy at least one - and add a Cowboy Neal option to all the screens.
ccalam - acoustic versions of new songs.
Get a refund. Alternatively, use them as catapult ammunition and return them manually.
1) Novelty themed restaurant, where you place your order by "voting".
2) Have a vote on what to do wuith them ... er, wait
Gotta say, the idea above about using them as trebuchet ammo is pretty appealing.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
would a Beowulf cluster of thousands of voting machines be?
Even more are used in the 2004 election: Winner=George Bush
Now they throw them out just in time for the 2008 election because George Bush might win again if they didn't.
http://xkcd.com/463/
xterm -n 8
Don't worry, you'll be voting regularly after you've died...
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos
Yeah, in the future please don't use the term "3-way" and "George Bush" together. Thanks.
If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it. -- Calvin Coolidge
That is what makes OCR hard, not what makes automating the process hard. Have you ever bothered coding a computer to put "nearly a whole bit" into memory?
An Eye for an Eye will make the whole world blind - Gandhi
They'll make it easier than ever to defraud the elections there
Why would they need to resort to tampering with electronic voting machines in Zimbabwe?
The current method of arresting opposition leaders in addition to using your loyal supporters to intimidate and brutally beat and/or kill aforementioned opposition leaders and opposition **cough*disloyal**cough voters works perfectly well.
I love you limey's with youre quaint oldfashianed ways! Want a beer? Sorry there all cold.
Keep the whitehouse white, vote Trump & Palin 2020.
Bah... Get with the times: Railgun
Catapult results nicer arc. I vote for Catapult!
"I have a correspondent whose letters are always a refreshment to me, there is such a breezy unfettered originality about his orthography. He always spells Kow with a large K. Now that is just as good as to spell it with a small one. It is better. It gives the imagination a broader field, a wider scope. It suggests to the mind a grand, vague, impressive new kind of a cow."
-- Mark Twain
Intron: the portion of DNA which expresses nothing useful.
or to achieve an even smaller risk of conspiracy: Two or more people of different, publicly known affiliations.
If you want to avoid a conspiracy then just let one person do it by themselves.
Cluestick, meet Geoffrey. Geoffrey, meet cluestick.
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