voting fail

[SFC]

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20081007/2355192488.shtml

Wired is running a long, and somewhat scary, report about the ongoing situation in Palm Beach, where every time the votes are counted, a different vote count comes out. A test was set up by the local newspaper to scan a sampling of ballots, and every time the results of those tests were different -- sometimes in extreme ways.

So my question is... how the hell can these companies fail this badly? Yet I grew up taking tests that ran through the scantron, and never had a single issue in 12 years of taking tests. And those things had 10x the amount of dots, we erased and re-filled in constantly, etc etc.

[Drunko McMoppo]

It's because they don't have enough money for proper research because all the rich people are so selfish and won't pay more taxes.

[SFC]

It's because they don't have enough money for proper research because all the rich people are so selfish and won't pay more taxes.

Funny, these are PRIVATE CORPORATIONS doing the research. You know, because PRIVATE CORPORATIONS, do EVERYTHING better than the government can.

[Drunko McMoppo]

Funny, these are PRIVATE CORPORATIONS doing the research. You know, because PRIVATE CORPORATIONS, do EVERYTHING better than the government can.

They must have an agenda.


Hmmmm, let's see, what political party do large corporations donate more money to.

[HorseDreams]

It's because they don't have enough money for proper research because all the rich people are so selfish and won't pay more taxes.

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[Pauly]

It's a republican conspirecy to make sure obama doesn't win.

Vote for obama = 2 for McCain

[kineda]

[Black87GT]

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/200...55192488.shtml



So my question is... how the hell can these companies fail this badly? Yet I grew up taking tests that ran through the scantron, and never had a single issue in 12 years of taking tests. And those things had 10x the amount of dots, we erased and re-filled in constantly, etc etc.

same here, almost EVERY test was scantron, and ive only had a problem on maybe 1 out of 20 tests, and its just like 1 that was counted wrong thats right...