States Report Early E-Voting Glitches

edited October 2004 in Science & Tech
With less than a week to go before the U.S. presidential election, dozens of voters in Florida may have already been disenfranchised as a result of technical glitches in the computers supporting the state's early voting process.
Since early voting began on October 18 in Florida and in at least seven other key states, voters have reported hundreds of problems to the Election Incident Reporting System, an online database founded by grassroots voter organizations, including the Verified Voting Foundation and Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility. Thirty-two states allow residents to vote at the polls before Election Day. Of the 666 incidents reported in Florida, 33 have been linked to alleged voting machine malfunctions in Broward, Duval, Lee, Marion, Miami-Dade, Orange, Palm Beach, Sarasota and Volusia counties. In Broward County, for example, some voters complained of electronic touch-screen systems that presented incomplete ballots.
The lawyers are going to just love this. -KF

Source: PC World
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