Thursday, March 27, 2008

Computer Voting

One more reason why voting will become increasingly meaningless. As a former systems person, a couple points caught my eye:
...lost 313 keys to the memory-card compartments where votes are stored on machines and hired taxi drivers to drive to election precincts and pick up the memory cards that contained the votes...

...not only did the county fail to conduct mandatory tests on the machines before the November election, but a county programmer had also intentionally disabled an internal auditing function for logging any changes made to the machine software...

...1,100 different ballot styles on 4,200 voting machines...
Where does one even start? These systems are systemically flawed and being run by the incompetent.

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