NYT Notes Flaws In Current Electronic Voting Methods

dstates writes “The New York instance has an informative scoop on electronic voting with some frightening statistics and interesting anecdotes. Printers on Diebold machines in Cayahoga County OH jammed 20% of the moment, making paper trail recounts suspect. Crashing voting machines in California reportedly resulted from Windows CE sensing fingers sliding

from one

key to another as a drag and drop event, and the Diebold software failing to handle the event. Of course, rather than just disregard that unanticipated condition, the OS did the right thing for a voting machine and crashed.”

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