Tuesday, November 07, 2006
Never thought I'd miss the hanging chad era!
No sooner am I done thanking Raw Story for the referrals yesterday than the news items keep pouring in about how f-cked these e-voting machines are. You better pray your vote gets counted the way you intended or even at all. Read on:
Time magazine asks: Can voting machines be trusted?
Voting machines vulnerable, says report by UConn faculty.
"It seems there's a little yellow button on the back of every touch-screen computer made by Sequoia Voting Systems, that allows any voter, or poll worker, or precinct inspector to set the system into "Manual Mode" allowing them to cast as many votes as they want."
Bonus reading:
HBO fired back at Diebold Election Systems on Thursday, defending its documentary "Hacking Democracy" from accusations of shoddy filmmaking.
Previously on The Kitchen: "GOP: Hijacking Demmocracy?"
Thanks to Raw Story for most of the above links.
