I heard a piece on NPR this morning saying that voter error is the biggest problem with electronic touch screen voting machines.
According to this piece there is an error rate of less than 3% when used normally, however the error rate climbs to more than 20% when a voter tries to make changes in his vote before registering it. Women are more likely to ask for help from an election official when this occurs and men are more likely to make errors. Who woulda thunk it? I still don’t trust the durn things. How do I know that it wasn’t tampered by some geek with a blackberry?
My favorite poll worker told me that all the touch screens at Rotus Ranch’s polling place are going to be replaced by machines that have a paper trail – in three years, Arrrrrrgh!
February 12, 2008 at 10:14 am
Congratulations you just survived another voting session!
I just wanna know why guys are afraid to ask for help?
Just like when driving you get lost,refuse to ask for help & 3 hours later you are still lost!
I do the same thing!
My wife will ask anyone and anything for directions, I think that sometimes Women are smarter…. (well maybe, most of the time)
Kyle
February 12, 2008 at 7:44 pm
I’ve had an iPhone for a week now and I’ve been brainwashed into thinking that everything should be touch screen now.
Of course with the iPhone you can use google maps so you’ll never need directions
February 14, 2008 at 8:24 pm
I voted on a screen when I lived in Atlanta, and I sure do hope my vote got counted.
Here in Alabama, we vote with a paper ballot optical scanner method, which I think is the most sensible option.