No Major E-Voting Problems, Huh? Then Where Are Florida's Missing Votes?
from the just-asking dept
In one of the stories we spotted yesterday about e-voting glitches, it was amusing to see (at the very, very bottom) the idea that "no major problems" were reported for e-voting in Florida. Florida and Ohio, of course, are the two places where e-voting stories have raised the most questions, and there had already been a number of reports of e-voting problems in Florida voting last week when their early polls opened. So, it looks like ABC may need to revise that "no major problems" report, as the EFF points us to a report saying that 13% of the electronic responses in Sarasota County included no vote for Congressional Representative. That means that somewhere between 8,000 to 10,000 people who voted for other things, like governor, appear to have not voted for House Representative -- and no one seems to have a good explanation. It's certainly possible that all those people decided to go "none of the above," but it seems unlikely -- especially since similar undervoting was not seen in other counties covered by the same Congressional district. Also, there were complaints all day about the e-voting machines not properly recording votes in that county. So, while people are asking for a recount... there's nothing to recount since the machines did not record the votes. Amusingly, the EFF also notes that the very same county had a referendum on the ballot about the e-voting machines, and the people overwhelmingly voted to scrap the machines and bring back paper ballots. So what was it the press was just saying about no major glitches with e-voting?
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When will this madness stop? How many botched elections are needed before the election officials get the point? How many posts on Techdirt are needed? This is insane!
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I guess the only way to satisfy people is to let Florida's vote be decided by news readers--since the media reports what the readers want to hear. But make sure that the people in Florida, especially north and central Florida, don't get their votes counted.
I agree, the voting machines are a joke. But it wouldn't make any difference what system Florida used, it would be wrong if Republicans won. Let's see, there was a mistake in 1 county for 1 office--yep, that means that we can throw out all the votes in Florida and claim it was Republican fraud. If there was an obvious machine error, it was caused by the Republicans.
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Do YOU have proof of fraud on either side? If so speak up. Otherwise, don't point fingers since a fraud allowed to happen now could cause your preferred party to lose in the next election. Would you rather have a redo now or in 2008?
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Mr Magoo is right thou
But everyone knows about the South Florida hanging chads.
South Florida is predominately Democrat;
Florida panhandle leans toward Republican.
So, yes, the NEWS does slant the whine about voting irregularity if the whining favors democrats.
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silence!
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Bothced e-Voting - Simple idea
Fire the company that brought you the blasted e-voting machines that don't work, and go with another vendor to manage the whole thing that has a better track record?
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Chill out
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No. The big deal is that there is no way to tell whether it is a statistical aberration as there is nothing to recount. So if there is any doubt at all then it can never be checked so there will always be doubt.
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complaints only when dems win? BS
There's plenty of problems going on with electronic voting systems and databases, regardless of the winners. This is not a partisan issue, and we all need to be concerned.
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Disney/FLA
Which is the greater scandal, the voting fraud or the reluctance of MSM to acknowledge it?
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my magoo are you fucking retarded?
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another mess!
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