Judge Voids Un-Auditable California Election 177
For only the second time in California history, a judge in Alameda County voided an election result and called for the election to be re-run, because the e-voting tallies from Diebold machines couldn't be audited. The vote was on a controversial ballot measure addressing the operation of medical marijuana dispensaries, and the result was a close margin. Activists went to court to demand a recount, but after the lawsuit was filed, elections officials sent voting machines back to Diebold. The court found that 96% of the necessary audit information had been erased. The judge ordered the ballot measure to be re-run in the next election.
Re:Yay! Now ban the machines (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Corporations (Score:5, Funny)
You'd think that Frito-Lay would be all over this initiative. And Dominos. While it may be hard to re-muster the Stoner Caucus to do this all over again, perhaps the Munchie Cartel can pick up the slack.
California. *sigh*
There's plenty of reasons to re-invent electronically-assisted voting (I like the also-spits-out-paper variation, myself), but it really doesn't help the cause when - to a casual newsreader - an important test case seems to be about weed.
The solution (Score:4, Funny)
We need to get rid of these electronic polling machines.
They should raise a proposition on this so that we can vote on the issue.
Re:Corporations (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Yay! Now ban the machines (Score:5, Funny)
Agreed but it's highly illegal to take all politicians and corperate executives and kill them on pikes in public.
Re:Why hasn't this been fixed? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Corporations (Score:5, Funny)