“E-voting technology has come a long way since the 2000 U.S. presidential election, when voting equipment problems erased an estimated 1.5 million votes during one of the closest elections in U.S. history,” Robert McMillan reports for IDG News Service. “But progress has zig-zagged. After Congress passed the 2002 Help America Vote Act (HAVA), counties spent billions of dollars upgrading to new electronic voting machines, many of which have now been dumped because they were unusable or, worse still, untrustworthy.”
“California and Florida, for example, have mostly abandoned e-voting systems in favor of optical scan machines where a paper ballot is scanned into a computer, leaving a paper record of the vote that can be manually recounted in the event of an audit,” McMillan reports. “That’s the gold standard, voting experts say: voting machines that use paper ballots that are routinely audited for errors.”
McMillan reports, “And while election observers say that more people will vote on paper ballots using optical scan machines than did in 2004, there is still room for plenty of e-voting glitches this year in a race that could have the highest turnout in 100 years. Here are a few things that could go wrong with electronic voting on Nov. 4.”
What could go wrong:
• Machine malfunction
• Touch-screen calibration errors
• Training problems/Unskilled poll workers
• Human error by voters
• Voter registration database problems
• Malicious attack/Hacking the election
Full article here.
For all you bleeding heart Libs who hope for “unity” following this election:
Forget it. If Obama is elected, we will not forget nor will we excuse your vicious, nasty, 8 years of blind hate.
It’ll be payback time.
Always remember that roughly 60 million people (around half of all voters or every other person) will not have voted for Barack Hussein Osama bin Biden.
In short, if you Obamatards and your complicit media achieve your goal, prepare yourselves for 4 years of revenge.
For every little thing that goes wrong – we will loudly blame your president. We will pretend that Obama is Biden’s puppet. The whole ball of wax.
You reap what you sow.
BTW: Biden makes Dan Quayle sound like Albert Einstein, but the liberal media gives him a total pass.
God forbid “Carter II: Just Blacker” happens, but if it does, prepare for much disharmony.
The 2012 election cycle begins now.
What could go wrong: either 2008 candidate getting elected
MDN, can you please erase the first post? There is no place for this in civilized discussion.
Thank you.
One more thing: You reap what you sow.
Then just stop bitching about the foul taste of the fruits of your labour and be a man about it.
MDN word: “eight” I kid you not.
I voted last week in Georgia, where there are only electronic ballots. It’s a scary, scary thing to see the Windows “hourglass” icon pop up after each button is pushed!
And in an interface only a Windows developer could possibly think was appropriate, when you select a candidate, the box you touch turns into a RED X mark! Seriously, I thought the machine had crashed after I made my first selection. Unbelievable….
One More Thing = One More Coward because he doesn’t register his username.
May I recommend Internet Tough Guy magazine.
Only a retard would protest out of spite.
What could go wrong:
Diebold rigs the election for McCain.
It’s exactly these types of hateful words scattered all over the internet by mccain/palin supporters that makes this election decision easy for my independent vote. If the conservative “extremists” are this hate filled, then I want nothing to do with that party. Obama/Biden ’08
Kinda funny that when you load/refresh MDN, no matter what your political leanings are, you are always hoping for blue.
See! We’re all just Macheads. Can’t we all get along!
Now, go vote.
What I don’t understand is that you read about all these governmental contracts, in countries around the world, where they spend billions and then the systems don’t work. Is there no accountability from the providers that the stuff they’re selling will work and be fit for purpose? It just seems to be accepted. I never hear about governmental bodies getting huge refunds.
@One more thing…..
I think you need a hug
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Dude, he is an idiot, but have you heard all the hateful things over the last 8 years? There are some on both sides.
Now go vote!
@One More Thing
It’s pretty early in the day. Giving up hope already, are we?
my post the other day with some swearing in it gets yanked, yet the swill of “one more time” i s ok?
pfft
macaholic,
Just because an opinion runs counter to yours does not mean it should be censored.
But, of course, you’re a liberal Obamatard, so you think it should be.
I’m only spreading the wealth. Just waiting for Biden’s major crisis, that’s all.
MDN, please erase the first post by One More Thing. It has no place in or relevance to this article.
@one more thing
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Nice try but it is clear you are just having fun trying to get people riled for the hell of it. You probably are a liberal Mac user but clearly show a fair amount of immaturity so I am guessing you are of high school age.
C’mere and give me a big hug you silly kid
Well, this article gives the Dems an excuse if McCain wins. They always need a crutch, a target to blame.
@ One More Thing
This is a difference between having a civil discussion and having a strong opinion and hateful and disrespectful speech.
I agree with many of you please erase the first post by One More Thing, this person offers us nothing in a civil discussion.
As for what could go wrong, in my experience as a former poll worker anything and everything.
My civics teacher said that electing Obama would be bad for the country and my mom never lies.
Watching the Lib Obamatards crawling out from the woodwork demanding censorship because “One more thing’s” comment conflicts with their cloistered, warped worldview is a laugh.
There is nothing in “One more thing’s” comment that warrants removal. The Libs just can’t stand the HarshTruth.
Typical lib trying to silence an opposing view. I’m sure you support the fairness doctrine too you ahole.
All I know is: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/11/04/vafairfax-county-machine-problems/
The Little Red Hen called all of her Democrat neighbors together and said, ‘If we plant this wheat, we shall have bread to eat. Who will help me plant it?’
‘Not I,’ said the cow.
‘Not I,’ said the duck.
‘Not I,’ said the pig.
‘Not I,’ said the goose.
‘Then I will do it by myself,’ said the little red hen, and so she did. The wheat grew very tall and ripened into golden grain.
‘Who will help me reap my wheat?’ asked the little red hen.
‘Not I,’ said the duck..
‘Out of my classification,’ said the pig.
‘I’d lose my seniority,’ said the cow.
‘I’d lose my unemployment compensation,’ said the goose.
‘Then I will do it by myself,’ s aid the little red hen, and so she did.
At last it came time to bake the bread.
‘Who will help me bake the bread?’ asked the little red hen.
‘That would be overtime for me,’ said the cow.
‘I’d lose my welfare benefits,’ said the duck.
‘I’m a dropout and never learned how,’ said the pig.
‘If I’m to be the only helper, that’s discrimination,’ said the goose.
‘Then I will do it by myself,’ said the little red hen.
She baked five loaves and held them up for all of her neighbors to see. They wanted some and, in fact, demanded a share. But the little red hen said, ‘No, I shall eat all five loaves.’
‘Excess profits!’ cried the cow. (Nancy Pelosi)
‘Capitalist leech!’ screamed the duck. (Barbara Boxer)
‘I demand equal rights!’ yelled the goose. (Jesse Jackson)
The pig just grunted in disdain. (Ted Kennedy)
And they all painted ‘Unfair!’ picket signs and marched around and around the little red hen, shouting obscenities.
Then the farmer (Obama) came. He said to the little red hen, ‘You must not be so greedy.’
‘But I earned the bread,’ said the little red hen.
‘Exactly,’ said Barack the farmer. ‘That is what makes our free enterprise system so wonderful. Anyone in the barnyard can earn as much as he wants. But under our modern government regulations, the productive workers must divide the fruits of their labor with those who are lazy and idle.’
And they all lived happily ever after, including the little red hen, who smiled and clucked, ‘I am grateful, for now I truly understand.’
But her neighbors became quite disappointed in her. She never again baked bread because she joined the ‘party’ and got her bread free. And all the Democrats smiled. ‘Fairness’ had been established.
Individual initiative had died, but nobody noticed; perhaps no one cared…so long as there was free bread that ‘the rich’ were paying for.
EPILOGUE
Bill Clinton is getting $12 million for his memoirs.
Hillary got $8 million for hers.
That’s $20 million for the memories from two people, who for eight years, repeatedly testified, under oath, that they couldn’t remember anything.