Fifteen years after the term "hanging chad" entered the American political lexicon, and Congress appropriated $2 billion to move to electronic voting systems to avoid a future conundrum, those same electronic systems are still in use in many jurisdictions.
“No one expects a laptop to last for 10 years. How can we expect these machines, many of which were designed and engineered in the 1990s, to keep running without increased failures?” said Lawrence Norden, deputy director of the Center’s Democracy Program, and co-author of the study, in a statement. “Old equipment can have serious security flaws, and the longer we delay purchasing new machines, the higher the risk. To avoid a new technology crisis every decade, we must plan for and invest in voting technology for the 21st century.”
The biggest risk in waiting, the study found, is that machines will continue to fail and malfunction, increasing lines at the voting booth and causing a crisis in confidence in the voting system.
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We need to go back to paper ballots. But the device that hold the ballot must be designed to allow only a single paper ballot to be slid in at a time.
ReplyDeleteThe Florida issue was cause by the crooked democrats giving democrat voters multiple ballot tickets and the democrat voters stuffing them into the punch card machines all at once. when they took the stylus and tried to punch out a vote, the hanging chads were created.
Democrat lie cheat and steal elections, because only the stupidest most corrupt people would ever vote for them.
Looks like Delmarva Downs.
ReplyDeleteDitto with the paper ballots.
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