Florida ditches problematic touch-screen voting, and now what?
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| The controversial ATM-like machines, which have been plagued by
| reports of bugs and vulnerabilities, will be replaced with
| optical-scan balloting, accorfding to a Florida legislature
| vote this week.
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http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9715960-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Related:
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| Problems found in an audit of Diebold tabulation records from an Ohio
| November 2006 election raise questions about whether the database got
| corrupted during the tabulation of election results...
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| The database is built from Microsoft's Jet database engine. The
| engine, according to Microsoft, is vulnerable to corruption when a lot
| of concurrent activity is happening with the database, such as what
| occurs on an election night...
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| The report mentions that election staff had trouble with the server
| crashing and freezing on election night....
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| The report notes that with punch card machines election officials used
| to be able to determine definitively if all ballots had been counted
| in the results....
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http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/04/diebold_vote_da.html
Diebold quietly repaired voting machines
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| The unpredictable freezes don't cause votes to be lost, officials
| said, but they confuse voters and election judges who sometimes
| wonder whether votes cast on a frozen machine will be counted.
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| [...]
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| Diebold Election Systems quietly replaced flawed components in
| several thousand Maryland voting machines in 2005 to fix a
| "screen-freeze" problem the company had discovered three years
| earlier, according to published reports Thursday.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061027/ap_on_hi_te/voting_machines
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