14 years after Bush v. Gore, we still can’t get voting tech right

Found on Ars Technica on Wednesday, 05 November 2014
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The Virginia Department of Elections said that some AccuVote TSX Touch Screen voting machines changed votes to something other than what the voter intended.

Another issue that cropped up was that the wrong digital voter rolls were loaded onto thumb drives in North Carolina. In Michigan, there was a similar problem that resulted in some voters being turned away: the mayor of Norton Shores was told that he had already voted by absentee, which he hadn’t. In Indiana, several polling locations were shut down as some computers would not boot entirely.

Every day there are news about how much more perfect the latest computer, smartphone, car or whatever is. Technology can do amazing things these days; except correctly counting if people press buttons. Or, for those with a tinfoil hat, maybe it just works as planned; except for a few cases where the tampering gets noticed.