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Friday, July 16, 2004

florida electronic voting performance

we have the early polling results on electronic voting in florida, and the results are… well, disappointing.

Records from the March 9 Democratic presidential primary show that votes were not recorded for one out of 100 voters using the new ATM-style machines. That’s at least eight times more than the number of flawed votes cast in the same election with pencil marks on paper ballots tallied by an optical scanner.

as much as i appreciate the accessibility and multi-lingual and other advantages of electronic voting machines, we’ve been saying for quite some time here that it’s just not worth it. find something else that lets the blind vote on their own, but don’t introduce a mechanism that creates eight times the errors in a system that absolutely must be trusted.

and i live in a state that already bought this crap.

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posted by roj at 12:26 am