Word: touchscreens
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...HUPD officers responded to the alleged theft of an Elo Entuitive touchscreen monitor from Paine Hall...
...problems were probably not due to a vast right-wing conspiracy in the voting machine industry. (Though it’s not entirely clear that such a conspiracy doesn’t exist—a board member of Diebold Election Systems, the company which makes most of the touchscreen voting systems that have been deployed, did at one point guarantee he would deliver Ohio to Bush in 2004. The promise sounds even more ominous in hindsight.) Rather, most of the issues surrounded poor “calibration” of the touchscreen inputs—the machines would register...
These incidents ran the severity gamut. In Georgia, where all voting is done on touchscreen machines, voters complained of long lines due to malfunctioning machines or machines with dead batteries. There were complaints of slow machines, and machines which at first refused to accept the “smart cards” each voter used to identify themselves. Some machines crashed or went blank while they were being used...
...they would, were it not for one more disquieting feature of most touchscreen voting equipment deployed in this election. Senator Kerry graciously conceded on Wednesday morning. But had he decided to fight it out and asked for hand recounts, it’s not clear what this would mean with respect to the new machines: They produce no printed receipt. In fact, they leave no paper trail at all. A lawsuit fought out in the Florida court system over the past six months tried to change this fact, but election officials have ultimately refused to deploy such equipment, calling...
...don’t mean to doubt that President Bush won this election fairly, and I don’t think touchscreen voting machines, for all their irregularities, tipped any balances. They even carried some ancillary benefits: Disabled persons, the blind in particular, were able to vote unassisted in a presidential election in large numbers for the first time in American history...