Problems Reported With New Voting Machines

[babsbunny]

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/14/problems-reported-with-new-voting-machines/?partner=rss&emc=rss&src=ig

By JAMES BARRON AND ELISSA GOOTMAN

Updated, 3:45 p.m. | On the first day a new voting system was unveiled in New York City that was supposed to be speedier and more accurate, the process was plagued with problems with some polling places opening as much as four hours late and others rife with chaos as workers coped with malfunctioning machines.

Some polling sites did not receive the optical scanners needed to read paper ballots and so failed at 6 a.m., the hour when voting was supposed to begin. At other polling places, optical scanners were not working properly and voters waited while workers tried to fix the machines. The frustration was so great in some cases that screaming matches erupted among workers and voters.

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg delivered a strongly worded denunciation of the city’s Board of Elections, which was responsible for overseeing the change from mechanical voting machines to computerized ones.

[BeFree]

1. No Way?

Those new-aged VCM's can't be questioned.

I know this because only a few people ever question the damned things.

[lpbk2713]

2. Was Katherine Harris a consultant?

In the implementation of these machines?






:rofl:

[aquart]

3. Told ya so. Give me my levers!