TF2

Now this from Florida...
...Fresh ammunition for electoral consipracy theorists emerges from the pages of the Miami Herald. Voting irregularities have been discovered in electronic voting machines in Miami-Dade county. People voting for the Democratic candidate for governor, Jim Davis, noticed that the "review screen" (the final step on these voting machines) had cast their vote for the Republican candidate, Charlie Crist. Local election officials have assured the electorate and the media that this is an isolated problem that has already been dealt with.
While thefederalist isn't all that worried that Charlie Crist is part of some nation-wide conspiracy to steal the mid-term elections, one cannot come off as pleased with these electronic voting machines after learning that, according to local election official Mary Cooney, it is "not uncommon for screens on heavily used machines to slip out of sync." The article goes on to say that workers are readily available to fix any irregularities. However, what if, in the confusion and rush of November 7th, voters don't notice or report a problem with one of these questionable machines? What if voters are confused and don't understand that their vote for their candidate just went to the other guy?
Call me old fashioned, but the fate of our democracy should not be left in the hands of faulty machines. For two hundred plus years Americans voted without these questionable devices. If there is any question about the performance of these machines they should be removed immediately and replaced with more traditional, reliable means of voting.
Americans get pissed off when their television sets don't work(and rightly so). There is no reason why we should hold machines that are meant to abet our electoral process to lower standards than we do devices used for personal enjoyment.