CHANNEL 6 NEWS INVESTIGATION: How Voter-Friendly Are Electronic Voting Machines?You may know who you want to vote for when you get to the polls, but can you trust the new voting machines to make your vote count in the May primary?
Voters this year will use iVotronic voting machines. Through a Channel 6 News investigation, we found that every state which uses this type of voting machine has reported some kind of computer glitch during voting.
Problems have been reported in Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, North Carolina, South Carolina and Texas. But because of their user-friendly system, the iVotronic system was still chosen locally.
However, many are concerned about the validity of the machines in the long run.
For example, according to VotersUnite.org and several Florida newspapers, absentee ballots were combined with electronic votes in Orange County during the 2004 presidential election. Further, the machine did not count 8,400 votes. A report said John Kerry beat President Bush by over 9,000 votes, but it was actually only 827 votes.
http://www.wjactv.com/news/9019604/detail.html Also:
They Pressed "KERRY" but got "BUSH"
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