E-voting smooth on Super Tuesday

[DuctapeFatwa]

Electronic voting's first big test came Tuesday, as voters used computerized voting machines instead of paper ballots and punch cards to help choose who will be the Democratic Party's nominee for president.

Only isolated problems were reported in the day's elections, in which delegates from nine states including New York, California, Massachusetts, and Ohio were up for grabs.

A representative for the elections division of the California secretary of state's office said some glitches arose in San Diego, which rolled out touch screen voting machines for the first time. The government blamed the problems, which prevented less than 20 percent of the machines from booting up properly, on power fluctuations and human error.

Other states said voting was expected to conclude without any serious problems.

http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-5168670.html

[Joanne98]

1. That's total bull

There was all kinds of problems. grrrrrrrrrrr

[MercutioATC]

2. Not according to THIS article:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4424621/

Seems it's an issue of who's telling the story...

[bobbieinok]

3. ???????? check out the other BBV discussions PROBLEMS!!!!!!!!

...

[PaDUer]

4. What? I guess you

haven't read the link where the posts are by members who wrote about what happened.

[DuctapeFatwa]

5. Sure, I've read it. Wanna bet this story is the one with the legs?

I'll bet you a spongmonkey avatar that this is the story you'll hear on the crusadenets.

[parasim]

7. You're right, it probably is...

Unlike, say, a story like this:

http://www.thesandiegochannel.com/politics/2889101/detail.html

40% in their poll saying they had problems... Yikes!

Of course, they're busy burying that one as deep as they can I'm sure...

[mbperrin]

6. "less than 20 percent of the machines from booting up properly"

So by their own lights, 80%+ accuracy is good enough????

WOW!

[joeunderdog]

9. NO SHIT!!! A 20% margin is a landslide. n/t

[alittlelark]

8. Let's be real

They are not going to do anything in this election..what the hell for? This election will be the 'I told ya so'. Even though the machines are corrupted to the Nth degree - that fact CANNOT be allowed to be documented until the BIG ONE. At that point the fix will be in.
We, at that point, will be forced to decide how to deal w/it.

[fearnobush]

10. These machines are like running a Windows 2000 operating system

with no service patches ever installed. It's like Diebold gets to greet Nimbda, Blaster, Mydoom etc. all at once!!! No wonder they, the dis-informationists media say 20% is "sporadic" and "isolated." WTF people, it's time to put the gloves on and Kick some ass.