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According to this AP story, in Alaska's primary on Tuesday, the returns were bogged down by failures in Diebold's eVoting machines forcing officials to hand count totals. You gotta sorta love the pompous assholes when they have the audacity to say things like this when their systems fail:

Just because they're not being uploaded doesn't mean they're not being recorded accurately.

That's what Division of Elections Director Whitney Brewster had to say about the fuckup. Well, when votes are recorded and then thrown away, that doesn't mean that they weren't recorded accurately, just that they were never counted! That's the logic this person is using.

I'm not saying that eVoting isn't the future or that it's inherentley bad. I think it is the future and advances in technology allowing those with disabilities to vote without assistance from another person are wonderful. Just that the fuckwads at Diebold, ES&S [who just settled for $750K in Indiana] and the other idiodic eVote companies with fat contracts aren't the ones who should be handling it.

Look forward to more nationwide shennanigans come November 7th.

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