Tuesday, July 27, 2004

No manual recounting for touch-screen voting? WTF? Florida was an extremely tight race in the 2000 presidential auction. In 15 counties in Florida, they will be using touch-screen voting machines that don't make printouts or paper trail of any kind, and are easily hacked, and there are all kinds of shady politics and shemes involved.

Plus, software instability alone is enough to reconsider the use of the machines without paper to keep track of votes. In 2002, South Carolina lost 436 votes to two machines in an election because of software trouble. When 537 votes in Florida determined the outcome between Bush and Gore, a mistake like that would be detrimental. Seriously, what the fuck?

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