Electronic Voting: Hacked?

Early voters in Florida have been experiencing a 'glitch' in which a vote cast for the Democratic candidate shows up as the Republican when the ballot review screen appears. Some voters have had to repeat the process three times or more before their ballot came out correctly. What's worse is that these machines were not removed from the voting process. Workers simply re-calibrate the touch screen, and put it right back into service.

It makes one wonder how many voters simply didn't notice that their ballot review didn't match the actual vote cast, and submitted an incorrect ballot.

This is more than just a bit distressing, because I work with touch-screen based interfaces on a regular basis. Poorly made touch-screens (a.k.a. cheap) require constant re-calibration. Pressing your finger on one of these screens can register as an input several inches away. Since there is no tactile feedback as with a physical button, if there isn't a good visual feedback system its very easy to make a lot of errors and not notice them.

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Jam it back in, in the dark.