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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: pompsander who wrote (754792)	11/21/2006 5:22:37 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769667

It might have been a software flaw or 'feature' (deliberate or accidental), or it might have been a FAULTY BALLOT DESIGN (a too-long ballot, not paginated properly... which flows over the edge of the viewing screen)... or something else entirely. I understand a few things: 1) that the actual ballot design was drawn up by local officials (i.e., not the responsibility of the voting machine company). and, 2) this particular voting machine design itself is impossible to 'recount'... as it does not provide a separate audit trail. In regard to that second condition, IMO any local official stupid enough to waste public money actually BUYING such a piece of crap... should be hung up by their thumbs in a town square and have weeks-old fruit thrown at them... because clearly they are either corrupt or else far TOO STUPID for office. (And, making error #1 doesn't exactly commend them for 'smarts', either.)