{"id":1058,"date":"2004-07-16T00:26:54","date_gmt":"2004-07-16T05:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/florida-electronic-voting-performance\/"},"modified":"2004-07-16T00:26:54","modified_gmt":"2004-07-16T05:26:54","slug":"florida-electronic-voting-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/florida-electronic-voting-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"florida electronic voting performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>we have the early polling results on electronic voting in florida,  and the results are&#8230; well,  disappointing.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"sourcequote\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/news\/local\/southflorida\/sfl-touchscreens11jul11,0,305144.story?coll=sfla-news-sfla\" class=\"broken_link\">Analysis reveals flaws in voting by touch-screen<\/a> [sun-sentinel, july 11, 2004]<\/div>\n<p>Records from the March 9 Democratic presidential primary show that votes were not recorded for one out of 100 voters using the new ATM-style machines. That&#8217;s at least eight times more than the number of flawed votes cast in the same election with pencil marks on paper ballots tallied by an optical scanner.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>as much as i appreciate the accessibility and multi-lingual and other advantages of electronic voting machines, we&#8217;ve been saying for quite some time here that it&#8217;s just not worth it.  find something else that lets the blind vote on their own, but don&#8217;t introduce a mechanism that creates eight times the errors in a system that <em>absolutely must be trusted<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>and i live in a state that already bought this crap.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafeshops.com\/bingoballot\/\" class=\"broken_link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"bingoballot.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/images\/bingoballot.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"125\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>we have the early polling results on electronic voting in florida, and the results are&#8230; well, disappointing. Analysis reveals flaws in voting by touch-screen [sun-sentinel, july 11, 2004] Records from the March 9 Democratic presidential primary show that votes were not recorded for one out of 100 voters using the new ATM-style machines. That&#8217;s at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}