Touchscreen Voting Troubles Reported
Voters nationwide reported some 1,100 problems with electronic voting machines on Tuesday, including trouble choosing their intended candidates.
Source: CNNThe e-voting glitches reported to the Election Protection Coalition, an umbrella group of volunteer poll monitors that set up a telephone hotline, included malfunctions blamed on everything from power outages to incompetent poll workers. But there were also several dozen voters in six states -- particularly Democrats in Florida -- who said the wrong candidates appeared on their touchscreen machine's checkout screen, the coalition said. In many cases, voters said they intended to select John Kerry but when the computer asked them to verify the choice it showed them instead opting for President Bush, the group said.
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OH NO! 1,100 problems! Out of over 106 Million voters...lets see that's less than 0.00001% And for sake of argument, only about 1/3rd of voters used electronic voting equipment, so we'll round it to 33 Million and it still stays well within thousands of a fraction of 1%, pretty good I'd say.
In most states, the members of the electoral college are not required to vote the same way as the popular vote. Therefore, who wins the popular vote is immaterial. Granted that the person that wins the popular vote generally wins the election, but they don't have to.
Bush won the electoral college vote, which is the only thing that matters under the current system. Don't like that, change the system. Don't make moronic statements like "bush didn't actually win in 2000".
I'm not saying that Bush necessarily SHOULD have won in 2000, although I'm glad he did. What I'm saying is that with the system set up the way it is set up now, he won. There was never any debate about whether he won or not. The issue was created by the mass media and the democratic party. And I repeat; if you don't like the fact that you can lose the popular vote and still be elected president, change the system. The system worked in 2000, but that doesn't mean that the system can't be flawed. You're confusing a flawed system with a broken one. The two are not the same thing.
And Gore would not necessarily have won, because the popular vote counts for nothing. Florida could very well have gone to Bush even if the popular vote had been for Gore, just as Ohio could very well have gone to Kerry although the popular vote was for Bush earlier this week.
By the way 27 states require electoral votes to follow the popular vote, while 24 do not.
Either that or you're just a troll; possibly both. Whatever it is, you're wrong, and since it's obvious that logic and fact have no effect on you, you're not worth wasting any more of my time on.