Reply #592: I voted (on paper) then went to the grocery store & did it all electronically [View All]

[Hekate]

Strange how that works: at Trader Joe's I can slide my credit card, watch the purchases totted up on the little screen where I slid it, get the receipt with everything on it -- and be assured that the credit card company, the bank, and the store will all work in synch to make sure it's correctly done. But the voting machine manufacturers can't manage it?

Seems to me that there's no such thing as "glitches' and "human error" when they foul up -- even the appearance of simple incompetence is intentional.

I went home and said this to my honey, who teaches Computer Info Systems and knows it already. Thanks to me, though, he now tells his students about it as well.

Hekate