“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.
Waow! Obama is President!
This prooves to the rest of the world that american is not that all crazy and dummy! USA can, now, gain back some respect from other countries, This was no more possible since such a silly guy like Bush was re-elected in spite of his guilty behaviour. After all, his provocative arrogance was the origin of the drama of September 11!
spoken like a true terrorist. the true obama will come out. he’s done a great job hiding it. the rest of the world can go to hell.
Reading the right-wing fanatics’ posts in here it’s no wonder the USA have declined through the past 8 years.
As for Obama: We’ll see. My hunch is that the sky is not going to fall after all.
MDN word: “reaction” — Indeed.
the true obama will come out. what is going to happen when all of his followers don’t get free gas and mortgage payments???? not to mention his racist, terrorist, and and corrupt close ally life long friends. there will be no reaching across the aisle from this group. it’s going to get very ugly.
Ping,
What about all of the ultra left wing, commie-socialist posts on this site? Disgusting!
Don’t forget that Obama sat there and listened to it….. for 20 Fu#king Years! This guy was fairly portrayed. He is a racist and a hater of and enemy to this country – Just like O-Bunghole. I just read in San Francisco Chronicle that the tax cut is $165,000 and under. You’ll see the truth come flowing in like a tsunami. Obama lied through his teeth to get you fulls to pull the lever, and now you’ll see how stupid you were. The middle east has already mentioned how weak they percieve he is for wanting to talk with Iran. You Bozos who voted for this guy are the worst kind of stupid.
I think it’s incredibly sad that Obama was elected. He does not represent the views of even a small portion of the United States but he had the skin color that the majority wanted for their next president. If he had been white he would have been laughed at. I believe he was elected ONLY because of his race. He is a token president at best.
Bush administration working to ensure smooth handover of power
The democrats did everything they could to trip up the transition. Remember removing all of the W’s from the government computers. Scum Bags!!!
bdriskell: I think it’s incredibly sad that Obama was elected. He does not represent the views of even a small portion of the United States but he had the skin color that the majority wanted for their next president. If he had been white he would have been laughed at. I believe he was elected ONLY because of his race. He is a token president at best.
According to the latest analyses, Obama has substantially gained across all voter segments, including elderly white people who might not be the most likely ones to vote for any guy just as long as he was black (or brown, as the case may be).
Every single one of many separate and very different voter segments would already have been enough to get him elected, all combined make up a substantial margin (according to the latest numbers I know about 7% of the popular vote).
All your shrieking won’t change the fact that a) Bush’s disastrous presidency and b) especially the radical Republicans as personified by Palin have alienated a large number of voters; People are sick and tired of exactly that shrill fanaticism. They want to have their country improve again for a change, and a substantial majority obviously see Obama as the man who can do exactly that.
We’ll see what his shortcomings will be, but the introduction of communism is almost certainly not on his agenda. You should really cool down and grow a spine, even if you may never reach the class of at least the last speech of John McCain.
MDN word “greater”: Indeed!
@ @almux
Spoken like a true ignorant (exactly that sort of who made most people of the world turn their back to America). Some, like you, would have even been able to vote for ideas worthy of the Middle Ages, and have a Palin for vice president! If this is not pathetic!
But finally, hope is allowed… at least half of americans proved they have some brains!
The dark Bush era is taking an end, but it will still leave deep wounds, within and without US borders, and this for quite a few years… But at least (if the neo-nazis and other evolution haters don’t succed killing the new President) America will not be abandoned all alone to its sad destiny.
Sorry if this seams harsh to some US citizens… but the truth is that the last 8 years of Bushery really killed your image!
There’s nothing radical about the republicans ahole. JFK was more conservative than todays repubs. You libs are so far gone to the left now it’s scary. The liberal teachers screw all the kids up and it takes them 20 years after to college to realize they’ve been brain washed by you idiots. Liberalism does not work. It leads to higher crime rates and more people dependent on hand outs. Exactly what liberal leaders want so they can get re-elected. Anyone with half a brain can figure it out. Go crawl back under your commie rock dirt ball.
@pingpong: There’s nothing radical about the republicans ahole.
I see. You’ve just disproved yourself in that sentence alone.
You might also want to learn to read, since I have referred to a certain segment of the republican scene.
Palin and her shrill low-brow attacks have obviously helped keep the radicals on the right wing of the GOP in line (as if they would have had anywhere else to go!), but she has at the same time driven away scores of moderates who wouldn’t be seen dead with such a hapless and vicious representative of the right wing.
As it turns out, there are many more moderates than shrieking extremists, so on the bottom line Palin and her ilk were a net negative for the GOP.
Talk about shooting your own feet off…!
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MDN word: “problem”:
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I don’t give a rats ass what you referred to. Liberalism doesn’t work. Look at one of the previous posts about how well liberalism has worked in various areas of the US. It hasn’t. It sucks and creates more lazy, dependent, idiots and more corrupt politicians that could care less about the people and only care about the politician being elected over and over again on promises of giving more free crap away. Keep growing the government and having them tell you what to do in every aspect of your life. That is not the American way and not the principals this country was founded on. I’m sure you wan the US to go down the tube so go to hell you little commie troll. There is endless opportunity in the US for people to better themselves and instead liberalism pushes reliance on the government for everything. The last thing we need is more government. We need personal accountability, a strong military, term limits of 8 years on congressmen.
Reality does not tend to agree with you, but that’s probably why you hate her so much…!
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@@Buster
Blister…..I like that. I just wanted to say NAFTA blowing up may be the best thing to happen to Canada. We get raped and pillaged by the US on most things that are not in their favour.
We have water and oil….in theory we can strangle the USA by the nuts if we wanted to….so remember play nice with us because unlike you, we are not filled so full of hate for each other.
Most people think Canadians are the nicest in the world and the world does agree that we are the number 1, most desirable place to live in the world.
We got to be doing something right! Please feel free to toss out another low class pathetic response.
Islamists Post Internet Video Urging Obama to Abandon War on Terror
Here we go. Obama’s on his way to surrendering.
Canada is great if you like commies.
@White lag
Do you have many other such narrow minded stuff in your mind? Pour thing! ALL religions are just fake, period.
http://www.newnation.org/NNN-Black-on-White.html
@Scary Truth
Too easy to pull people down and then accuse them to get agressiv of so much frustration!
White men have robed and raped largely enough the past centuries…
Yeah right, everything is the white man and George Bush’s fault. Up yours dude.
@ @almux
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At least, sure 11th sept woudn’t have happened if NO Bush around…
‘My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world.
I hope you’ll join with me as we try to change it.
— Barrack Obama
@almux, 9/11 had nothing to do with Bush and everything to do with democrats letting their guard down.
Obama will always use the race card — he knows everyone is afraid of race riots if his legitimacy is challenged — he is not a citizen and even his wife slipped and said he had been adopted by Lolo Soetero and tied it to a comment about that not being a reason for questioning his patriotism. Just being a US citizen does not make you eligible to be president. What is at stake here is whether we uphold the laws as spelled out in our Constitution or we abandon its governing principles and embrace the anarchy espoused by Bill Ayers — remember what Karl Marz said, “The bigger the lie, the more people believe