Monday, April 23, 2007

If I lived in Florida


Susan Pynchon, with the Florida Fair Elections Coalition, says the software flaw could be partially responsible for a high under-vote rate in the race, despite county officials' statements to the contrary. "It's clear that something happened with those machines," Pynchon says.

Source: wired.com

More evidence (thanks, Wired!) showing that bugs in e-voting in Florida occur regularly and that the voting officials ignore them. I would harp on this if I was a Florida blogger, but you have to figure out how to get into the communities and get voters to pay attention to officials who can't or won't straighten out e-voting and VOTE them out of office.

Gee, since the officials can determine who wins or loses, how do you vote them out of office? In the pre-Gonzalez days when our Attorney General worked for the people, you could go for Federal intervention. These days, who knows what to do.

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