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Land Shark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-27-06 10:48 AM
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1. There's the quote that 's the start of my "Glitches as Bait" prediction
Edited on Mon Mar-27-06 10:51 AM by Land Shark
In that threadly, I expressly predict that for whatever reason, and whether intentional or not, the incidence of VISIBLE glitches will die down and be pronounced by the vendors to be dead. But the invisible glitches and secret vote counting --i.e. the real issues--- will remain.

On edit: and the quote is: ""History show that it's the first election with new equipment when jurisdictions are most likely to experience problems," said Kimball Brace, president of Election Data Services (EDS), a political consulting firm that specializes in election administration and redistricting."

They are trying to tell us this is the high water mark for the mis-named "glitch" which is really a malfunction, programming error, fraud or defective design.

BTW if more than a very very small number of people can not navigate a technology properly, human factors studies teach that this is a design defect, not a voter defect...

Elections officials are like store proprietors with a 2 inch unmarked rise on the exit door watching, pointing and criticizing when their customers trip on the 2" rise, fall and spill all their groceries on the sidewalk outside.
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