Voting Vendor May Be Ousted

Yet another new voting system for Hillsborough County?

That's a possibility as the county tries to determine what role the newly purchased optical-scan voting machines - and the system's owner, Premier Election Solutions - played in Tuesday's election fiasco. Full Story »

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Dwight Rousu
3.5
by Dwight Rousu - Nov. 10, 2008

The story reports on the controversy and the statements from various sides, but does not manage to clearly sort out the causes of the problems, though I think I understand. It is an important subject.

The vote counting process needs to be returned to the people. If machine counting is done, the machines and software code need to be open and public and inspected. At least in this case the messup was big enough to be noticed immediately. Late results are a minor problem.

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