How To Lose An Election 828
smooth wombat writes "CNN has posted a story to their site about electronic votes from Miami-Dade County's first widespread use of touchscreen voting machines that were lost due to a computer crash.: 'The malfunction was made public after the Miami-Dade Election Reform Coalition, a citizen's group, requested all data from the 2002 gubernatorial primary between Democratic candidates Janet Reno and Bill McBride.' Other groups are challenging a state rule preventing counties that use the machines from conducting manual recounts from them." Reader fatwater adds a link to the New York Times' coverage.
Ha! (Score:3, Funny)
To err is human... (Score:4, Funny)
-- Anonymous
Re:Anybody else read that as... (Score:3, Funny)
Nope...just you.
BSOD (Score:1, Funny)
from nyt (Score:3, Funny)
that sounds just like something that would come from florida
So *DO* something, pussies! (Score:1, Funny)
That should help you out! (Score:2, Funny)
You're welcome.
Ouch you meant eLection.
Sorry man. Don't know about that. I guess getting caught with one of these beauties before being in the oval circle would do the job
A classic case... (Score:3, Funny)
This is a classic case of "Don't trust the mass media except when there's an article that I agree with, in which case, trust the mass media".
According to the
Re:This is why there need to be reform (Score:2, Funny)
I'd also add in that if you (in the general) are receiving federal handouts you should not be able to vote.
What if I only work for a goverment contractor, and don't actually own the company?
How to Lose an Erection (Score:3, Funny)
Although I suppose reading any story involving Janet Reno would be pretty effective there as well.
Re:It's teh correct decision. (Score:3, Funny)
Thats right! Because there is no way that a programming error could possibly result in an incorrect tally...
Re:No recounts in districts with touchscreen votin (Score:1, Funny)
1. the voting instructions are highly confusing.
2. you guys are all really dumb