So many "computer glitches" in FL and TX - nice euphemism for "rigged"

How many times have you read a statement by an election official or a voting system vendor: "Oh, it was just a computer glitch...not enough to change the outcome." Question: how many computer glitches does it take to change the outcome of an election?

http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00002528.htm

FL Candidate Votes for Self, Sequoia Touch-Screen Voting Machine Flips Vote to Opponent!

From today's St. Petersburg Times...

When Cook tried to vote for himself, the machine defaulted to a vote for Taylor. A precinct worker finally moved Cook to a different booth.

Later in the day, Cook said he had other reports of voting machines malfunctioning in similar ways.

The flipping machines used in the Pinellas County, FL election were paperless touch-screens made by Sequoia Voting Systems -- the same paperless "Edge" touch-screen systems whose purchase and future use in New Mexico was recently banned in the state in light of a lawsuit where many voters complained of the same type of "vote flipping" on the machines during the 2004 Presidential Election.

Those are also the same machines which lost more than 12,000 votes in Bernalillo County, NM in 2002.

On the other hand, this is Florida, after all. So, as Pinellas County, FL Supervisor of Elections communications director, Nancy Whitlock says, there's nothing to worry about:

No one else complained, so it is unlikely the problem affected many, if any, other votes, she said.
We feel much better now. It was just "a glitch."


Electronic Voting System Adds 100,000+ Votes in One Texas County During Tuesday's Primary Election
Hart InterCivic Paperless Touch-Screen Systems Flat-Out Fail in Tarrant County, TX
Officials Ignored Prob on Election Night, Blame 'Program Snafu' the Next Day
URL: http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00002526.htm


E-Voting Woes: You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet...
Texas Primary Augurs Upcoming E-Trouble in E-Merica...
Scores of E-Voting "Glitches" Reported Wednesday Morning (and many more today!)
URL: http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00002522.htm

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a bill should be introduced that requires voting machines to be 98% accurate (no "glitches") or that particular voting districts' results should be voided.

I don't see why the voters should settle for less.

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...to implement unreliable systems designed to allow easily rigged elections.

Help me.

primaries . . .

from 30 percent down now to a "respectable" 10 percent (:sarcasm:) . . .

http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/news/14064693.htm