Seems I am not the only one thnking that the electronic voting machines may be suspect. In one instance according to the New York Times:
The state relies heavily on punch-card balloting machines of the hanging-chad variety. Voting machines in Ohio failed to register votes for president in 92,000 cases over all this year, a number that includes failure to cast a vote, disallowed double votes and possible counting errors. An electronic voting machine added 3,893 votes to President Bush's tally in a suburban Columbus precinct that has only 800 voters.
Anyone who has ever worked with computers know that for every problem you actually discover, chances are there are more lurking in the background that you never notice. However, those problems can still have an impact on the final result. There is also a maxim in computer science: there is no such thing as a bugfree computer program.
BlackBoxVoting.org are working on putting together a Freedom of Information Act review of the election. It is a massive project.
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