Everything That Could Go Wrong On Election Day: Rigged Voting Machines, Software Bugs...

Eat The Press   |   November 3, 2006 09:56 AM


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The LATimes looks at how ready the country is for the election coming up in four days -- you know. that election that is really, really easy to plan for because it's always on the same day -- and finds a whole host of potential problems that could thwart the system. Per the LAT:

[I]instead of bringing the accuracy, efficiency and reliability of the corner ATM, the wholesale makeover of the nation's voting system has brought a new set of concerns: the possibilities of software bugs, freeze-ups, vulnerability to hackers and new forms of human error that could bring their own chaos and controversy.

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