Those flipping vote machines
Monday, October 27th, 2008
The Brad Blog has a story with videos documenting electronic voting machines flipping votes.
Apparently the scenario is this: Someone makes their vote for candidate X by pressing the corresponding box, but the machine puts a big green check mark against candidate Y instead.
…so far, all of the confirmed reports of vote-flips this year have been away from Democratic candidates
I guess the implication is that the machines have been programmed this way by nefarious GOP operatives as yet another way to rig the election.
Now, my tinfoil hat is among the shiniest when it comes to believing the worst about what America’s neocons have done in the past and will stoop to in the future, but even I can’t believe that when a programmer has the power to simply ignore whatever input is received and concoct whatever output their evil overlords mandate, they would then go all Donald Norman on us and insist on giving the user visual feedback that the deceit is happening.
The Brad Blog has a story with videos documenting electronic voting machines flipping votes.
Apparently the scenario is this: Someone makes their vote for candidate X by pressing the corresponding box, but the machine puts a big green check mark against candidate Y instead.
…so far, all of the confirmed reports of vote-flips this year have been away from Democratic candidates
I guess the implication is that the machines have been programmed this way by nefarious GOP operatives as yet another way to rig the election.
Now, my tinfoil hat is among the shiniest when it comes to believing the worst about what America’s neocons have done in the past and will stoop to in the future, but even I can’t believe that when a programmer has the power to simply ignore whatever input is received and concoct whatever output their evil overlords mandate, they would then go all Donald Norman on us and insist on giving the user visual feedback that the deceit is happening.
