Electronic voting in any election is not only unreliable, and subject to exploitation, but also a medium of manipulation for those who run the system.

Hillsboro county (Tampa) primary votes could not be tabulated for almost an entire day because of a "computer glitch" as stated by the commissioner of elections.

A study of the 2002 gubernatorial primary election in FL carried out by the Civil Liberties Union found that of 31 precincts counted:

18,752 voters on rolls.
17,208 votes counted
1,544 votes unaccounted for (8.2% of the count)

Let us examine how the process works. The touch screen voting machine has a cartridge that stores the information of the collected votes. This cartridge is placed in a second mashie that then tallies the count. In some cases the cartridge is inserted in a sending unit and the count is then transmitted to the main counting unit via telephone wire. In the Tampa instance we are informed that the counting computer made the error of counting all the votes every time it tallied any single vote. Such a counting program is simple enough for a HS student to work out, leaving ample cause not to believe the statement by the Hillsborough elections commissioner.

I have the following questions:
1. How is it possible that a computer program of such simplicity whose only functions is to count and total could be wrong? After all any 19th century mechanical adding-machine is able to do this.
2. How could a computer counting system make an error of 8.2% when my commuter has never made a mathematical mistake?
3. What prevents a counting person from entering a cartridge from any district whose votes are for any particular candidate in plurality twice and then omit a differing cartridge whose votes are skewered in any opposing direction?
4. How if there is no paper trail does one do a re-count? And do not tell me it's by recounting the electronic data.
5. Why if the largest recorder error in paper ballots was 4.4% should we change to a system, which has an error of 8.2%?
6. Why is Florida the only state that I have lived in who has a Commissioner of Elections our bureaucracy is already over bloated without that office?
7. Why do we let people who are so stupid that they cannot even punch a hole into a card vote in the first place?
8. In the first federal election that I voted in you had to prove you could read and write English when and why was that provision removed from the statues? Adrian H. Krieg

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