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Voting Machines Routinely Failing Nationwide
palegray.net writes "Voting machines in several critical swing states are causing major problems for voters. A Government Accountability Office report and Common Cause election study [PDF] has concluded that major issues identified in the last presidential election have not been corrected, nor have election officials been notified of the problems. How long can we afford to trust our elections to black box voting practices? From the article: 'In Colorado, 20,000 left polling places without voting in 2006 because of crashed computer registration machines and long lines. And this election day, Colorado will have another new registration system.'"
I just want that system to print a paper receipt that can be used in the case of a dispute and a recount.
Computer based voting is simply unnecessarily complicated. Who says that the system will print out the correct information? What happens to the receipts?
Nah, pen and paper have worked for thousands of years. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
I don't respond to AC's.
I've noticed that liberalism has been redefined to include socialism. Liberals used to be guys like Jefferson and Paine. Bush is more of a conservative socialist, like Hitler.
The cost of that cleanup, of course, will be borne by taxpayers, not industry.
Its not that computer based voting is a bad idea, its just that it was tackled as a means to make money
The intent wasn't to make money so much as it was to provide improved methods of tampering with the outputs.
Bush 2000, Bush 2004, McCain 2008. The truly amazing thing is that nobody's in jail for it yet.