By Fester:
The Washington Post reports that Ohio is removing electronic voting machines that could lose votes:
The problem was identified after complaints from Ohio elections officials following the March primary there, but the logic error that is the root of the problem has been part of the software for 10 years, said Chris Riggall, a spokesman for Premier Election Solutions, formerly known as Diebold.
The flawed software is on both touch screen and optical scan voting machines made by Premier and the problem with vote counts is most likely to affect larger jurisdictions that feed many memory cards to a central counting database rapidly.
How convenient that these errors are more likely to occur in large jurisdictions with many machines.... For we all know that there is absolutely no partisan voting relationship between community size and probability of voting for one party or another. Voters are homogeneously distributed throughout geographic space.
Really, how convenient that urban areas are more likely to lose a few votes here and there depressing probable Democratic margins.
Paper, Sharpie Marker, and lots of caffeine are components of a verifiable and hard to screw up voting system --- let�s think about that one.
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