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Early Voting Problems, Open Source Alternative
Techdirt makes note of some problems cropping up already for early voters in the presidential election. CNN covers some of the issues, including machines in a West Virginia county which recorded some votes incorrectly because of an alignment error. A lengthy discussion of the problems was also featured on NPR. Reader Rooked_One points out a related story at NPR about a voting program called PVOTE, written in Python and only 500 lines long. "Pvote is not a complete voting system. It is just the software program that interacts with the voter. Other necessary functions, such as voter registration, ballot preparation, and canvassing, are not part of Pvote. It is especially important that the voter interaction be correct because it is the only part of an election that must take place in private, whereas all other parts of an election can and should be subjected to public oversight and verification."
Have you ever heard of a bank that gives away free money because they can't seem to get their ATM's to work correctly. No? That is because these voting machine problems are not real problems. They are manufactured. It's BS.
The 2008 elections in the US is only a test. It tests the prejudice/intelligence ratio in the american public.
If enough people vote for McCain/Palin, that will be a green light for more war and more corruption. In other words, it will prove that the "system" is working and that the american people is willing and ready to accept more BS.
I hope the US does not end up with Palin as president. Not only because I disagree with her views, but because she is an idiot. I mean that in the most polite sence, because she is really, actually and factually an idiot. There is no other word to describe her.
It would be nice for us "foreigners" to have a sane person "over there" for a change.