Electronic Voting Runs Into Some Glitches and WILL SCREW US DEMS! [View All]

SAN FRANCISCO - Frozen screens and malfunctioning computers plagued some Super Tuesday voters who tried to cast electronic ballots, and experts predict such problems will be repeated on a national scale in November.
"Eventually, things will go smoother, but the first couple times will have bugs, no matter what system you switch to," Brace said.

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Some computer scientists say electronic systems expose elections to hackers, software bugs and power outages — with potentially catastrophic consequences. Critics say that because most electronic voting terminals do not produce paper records, there's no way to ensure accurate recounts.

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New Jersey Democratic Rep. Rush Holt, author of a bill to require paper records for every electronic ballot, said that although the Super Tuesday mishaps were not catastrophic, they foreshadow trouble in November.

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"Unless Congress deals with this problem immediately by requiring voting machines to produce a paper record voters can verify we're going to have more of these occurrences each time we have an election, including this November," Holt said Tuesday. "The only question is, how long it will take before voters lose faith in a system that they thought was being fixed?"

Ok this bothers me. ALOT