Electronic voting problems
Last edited Wed Sep 26, 2012, 12:40 PM - Edit history (1)
The fact that the problems with electronic voting remain is still a big problem for me. Not even counting the fact that the vote tallies can be fudged in favor of gop by unscrupulous political operatives and politicians, the machines can simply break down.
Electronic voting 2012: Here we go again
http://www.marketplace.org/topics/tech/campaign-trail/electronic-voting-2012-here-we-go-again
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This week (May 2012), the official verdict came back on some electronic vote-reading machines in the South Bronx that seemed a little fishy in the last congressional election, 2010. Larry Norden is with the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU and says sometimes the voting machine "was essentially overheating and because it was overheating, it was reading a lot of phantom votes -- a vote that the voter didn't actually cast, but that the machine saw." The upshot is that in some districts in the Bronx, it turns out more than a third of votes weren't counted.
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I think everyone involved in the voting process should be put on the spot to ensure every vote is accurately counted. Count MY Vote.