Tuesday, November 07, 2006
e-voting debacle
Gosh, if only this could have been predicted.
Oh wait, everyone who understands e-voting did predict this.
CBC News - Electronic voting shapes up as election debacle - November 7, 2006
Oh wait, everyone who understands e-voting did predict this.
After warnings that electronic voting could cause trouble in Tuesday's U.S. elections, there are signs of "what now appears to be a growing debacle," the CBC's Henry Champ reports from Washington.
By mid-afternoon, officials in at least three jurisdictions — Denver, Colo., Muncie, Ind., and Davidson County, Tenn. — were asking federal judges for extended voting hours because, they said, voting machines in their areas have not functioned and they cannot handle the numbers of voters at the polls without more time.
Seventy-five precincts in Indiana — considered a bellwether state — failed to open on schedule because machines malfunctioned. In Cleveland, where there were problems with new machines in September's party primaries, things seemed no better.
"Again the same problem," Champ said. "Machines and machine supervisors unable to get the operations underway. Voters piling up in the doorways."
CBC News - Electronic voting shapes up as election debacle - November 7, 2006
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