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Guy Who Insists E-Voting Machines Work Fine... Demonstrates They Don't
techdirt.com - 10/30/2008
Guy Who Insists E-Voting Machines Work Fine... Demonstrates They Don't
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If someone pitched a movie based on e-voting machines that work as bad as the ones being used in the current election, the story would be dumped as being unrealistic. But truth is, indeed, often stranger than fiction. You may recall on Friday that we had a post about problems with e-voting ...
theonion.com - 11/5/2008
Voting Machines Coincidentally Elect Voting Machine as President
— theonion.com — Voting Machines Coincidentally Elect Voting Machine as President (more) Voting Machines Coincidentally Elect Voting Machine as ...
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blog.wired.com - 11/3/2008
Report: ES&S Voting Machines Can Be Calibrated to Favor Specific Candidates
— blog.wired.com — Touchscreens in voting machines being used in 20 states can be maliciously calibrated so that votes for... one candidate are mapped to another, according to report from computer scientists. The behavior is eerily similar to problems already seen in early ... (more) Report: ES&S Voting Machines Can Be Calibrated to Favor ...
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GeekSugar:  E-Voting Machines Are a Disaster Waiting to Happen

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E-Voting Machines Are a Disaster Waiting to Happen
GeekSugar — ... are the way to go. But, wait? What happens if they malfunction and thousands of votes get lost, or worse yet, they don't enter the system correctly? The following video is intended to show how e-voting machines work, with a local county clerk in West Virginia providing a demonstration. But instead, the the clerk encounters some problems with the machine as it doesn't select the proper candidate when entered. He blames it on the machine being out of calibration, and shrugs it off. Scary, scary indeed. ...

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