By: nofundy
A few rigged voting machines, a few disenfranchised eligible voters, a few ballots tossed away on technicalities, and pretty soon you have another stolen election. Amazing waht money can buy. Is it...
View ArticleBy: birdherder
The e-voting machines I've used here in Austin for the last few years have a wheel you turn. You don't touch the screen. I had to do a write in for Congressman and it totally took me back to the days...
View ArticleBy: five fresh fish
Maybe the solution, then, isn't to change from bubble-sheets and hand-counting, but to simplify the damn election. It's amazing that people even bother to vote, given the burden of deciding dozens of...
View ArticleBy: NorthernLite
I learned that if I press the screen where it says "withdrawal" it asks me how much I want to deposit. I solve this problem by touch about an inch above the withdrawal button. Ditto with mine. Also,...
View ArticleBy: ROU_Xenophobe
why the fuck can't we use bubble sheets and an optical scanner? We can. Lots of places do. The downside is that bubble-sheets, or other optical-scan forms, are harder for old people to deal with as (1)...
View ArticleBy: Joey Michaels
At my bank machine, which is a touch screen, I learned that if I press the screen where it says "withdrawal" it asks me how much I want to deposit. I solve this problem by touch about an inch above the...
View ArticleBy: bkdelong
Is there a Web site or forum setup to track voter "stories" or irregularities yet? It looks like BlackBoxVoting.com has started colleting some (RSS feed here) but it sounds like it would be prudent for...
View ArticleBy: caution live frogs
"In Sandoval County, three Rio Rancho residents said they had a similar problem, with opposite results. They said a touch-screen machine switched their presidential votes from Bush to Kerry." so, the...
View ArticleBy: ROU_Xenophobe
so what, again, is a single advantage that touchscreen machines offers to democracy? It's easier to: Make large-print "ballots" Have fully multilingual ballots instead of just English and Spanish...
View ArticleBy: Zurishaddai
in Florida, touch-screen undervote rates have been six times higher than optical scan rates ...so what, again, is a single advantage that touchscreen machines offers to democracy?
View ArticleBy: 2sheets
"People are touching them with their palms, or leaning their hand" That may be true, and it has nothing to do with any dark conspiracy, but it's still a problem. I've worked the polls and you have a...
View ArticleBy: biffa
Oh look, its 5.04pm on a Friday, I wonder what could have given me that idea?
View ArticleBy: biffa
Eureka! How about we make it that to qualify to vote you have to win money on a touch screen quiz game down the pub?
View ArticleBy: rafter
(Via.) Maybe it's time to rethink our electoral vote estimates? Oh, and Newsfilter. But come on.
View ArticleOr maybe it's just the voter's fault
Blackbox Voting, take6. While lawsuits elsewhere seek to require paper trails or block e-voting altogether, early voting in some states is already using the controversial machines. Take New Mexico, for...
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