especially in 2000 blue states, i.e. Northeast?
what happens if the integrity of the results leave us with a situation requiring challenges in multi-states, etc.
are we prepared for such a scenario?
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for all I know, the power grid might have a bad day
Parts of Shaker Heights, University Heights, Bedford, Bedford Heights, South Euclid and Lyndhurst (Ohio) are experiencing a power outage, affecting approximately 15,000 FirstEnergy customers.
Several election polling locations are without power, and there are reports of people voting by candlelight and with flashlights.
The cause of the outage is a substation in Northfield.
http://www.cleveland.com/news/index.ssf?/news/more/03outage02.htmlTechnical Problems Reported in E-Voting
Tue Mar 2,11:14 AM ET Add Technology - AP to My Yahoo!
By RACHEL KONRAD, AP Technology Writer
SAN JOSE, Calif. - Electronic voting made its debut in cities and towns from Maryland to California on Tuesday as election officials beefed up security for the record number of voters expected to cast E-ballots for the first time.
Scattered technical problems were reported in the early hours as voters in 10 states, including California, New York and Ohio, went to the Super Tuesday polls to choose a Democratic presidential nominee and decide primary contests for congressional and state races.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=562&ncid=703&e=2&u=/ap/20040302/ap_on_hi_te/e_voting_s_biggest_testFrozen screens and malfunctioning computers plagued some voters who tried to cast electronic ballots in yesterday's "Super Tuesday" contests to win the Democratic nomination for this year's US presidential elections.
Experts predicted such problems will be repeated on a national scale in November's presidential election
In California's San Diego County, touch-screens failed to boot properly, causing delays of up to two hours and forcing some voters to other polling places - where they cast old-fashioned paper ballots.
Other counties in California, Georgia and Maryland reported problems with encoders, the devices that allow touch-screen computers to display candidate and ballot measures specific to one county...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/story/0,13918,1161154,00.html