MIT political science professor Charles Stewart III discusses electronic voting systems, and whether we can expect trouble this time around:"...there continue to be an unnerving number of cases where systems are shown to be unreliable. For instance, Premier Election Solutions (formerly Diebold) recently reported that a bug in the software that accepts and counts election results from individual voting machines has a flaw that can result in some ballots being dropped from the system before they are counted. It's a stretch to call this a security problem, but it's not a stretch to call it a reliability problem."Nice try with the name change, Diebold. Also, does anyone understand why it's so hard to make reliable electronic voting systems? People around this office routinely run 5-10 big applications on Mac OSX without any problems. Software that tallies votes would seem to be way simpler.Photo of old people fumbling with electonic voting machine from Premier Election Solutions
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