The
inevitable slew of questionable voting machines has begun as it does
every election year since the machines came out. I am all for progress,
but I am very skeptical of these machines. Especially the ones that
won't give you a receipt. A voting machine is a lot easier to hack into
and manipulate than a voting box. Voting Machines - Elections - Ballots - Politics - New York Times
This NYTimes article tells the story about one of the machine, that was originally working fine, screwing up in Ohio in 2006:
"Then
at 10 p.m., the server suddenly froze up and stopped counting votes.
Cuyahoga County technicians clustered around the computer, debating
what to do. A young, business-suited employee from Diebold — the
company that makes the voting machines used in Cuyahoga — peered into
the screen and pecked at the keyboard. No one could figure out what was
wrong. So, like anyone faced with a misbehaving computer, they simply
turned it off and on again. Voilà: It started working — until an hour
later, when it crashed a second time. Again, they rebooted. By the wee
hours, the server mystery still hadn’t been solved."
