Voting Machines. Need we say more?

AP: "Voting machines began wreaking havoc the minute the polls opened Tuesday, delaying voters in dozens of Indiana and Ohio precincts and leaving some in Florida with little choice but turn to paper ballots instead.
In Cleveland, voters rolled their eyes as election workers fumbled with new voting machines that they couldn't get to start properly.
'We got five machines _ one of them's got to work,' said Willette Scullank, a trouble shooter from the Cuyahoga County, Ohio, elections board.
Election officials in Delaware County, Ind., planned to seek a court order to extend voting after an apparent computer error prevented voters from casting ballots in 75 precincts. Delaware County Clerk Karen Wenger said the cards that activate the machines were programmed incorrectly.
'We are working with precincts one-by-one over the telephone to get the problem fixed,' Wenger said.""
Oh, this is going to go well. There are apparently tens of thousands of lawyers on standby, and the EFF will be taking calls on 'irregularities' at 1-866-OUR-VOTE. Of course, if these horribly insecure boxes are hacked with minimal effort to swing elections, we'll probably never know.
Labels: privacy, security, technology, voting_machines
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
Links to this post:
Create a Link
<< Home