Life Is Not Purgatory
Wednesday, July 28, 2004
How to Steal an Election (Again)
Miami-Dade county, home of the hanging-chad has completely replaced the punchcard ballots with a new touchscreen voting system that will digitally record the vote choices to prevent dimpled and hanging chad mishaps in the next election. These new devices created by Diebold and a handful of other companies promise fast and efficient election results, although not nessasarilly accurate. The two big hangups:
- The are prone to crashes and allow for no manual recount capability.
- Diebold's CEO, Walden O'Dell is a Major Republican donor quoted as saying "(he'll) help deliver Ohio to the GOP next year." (these machines are also in place in Ohio.)
Wonderful.
Miami-Dade county, home of the hanging-chad has completely replaced the punchcard ballots with a new touchscreen voting system that will digitally record the vote choices to prevent dimpled and hanging chad mishaps in the next election. These new devices created by Diebold and a handful of other companies promise fast and efficient election results, although not nessasarilly accurate. The two big hangups:
- The are prone to crashes and allow for no manual recount capability.
- Diebold's CEO, Walden O'Dell is a Major Republican donor quoted as saying "(he'll) help deliver Ohio to the GOP next year." (these machines are also in place in Ohio.)
Wonderful.
