Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

SoylentNews is people

posted by mrcoolbp on Friday April 24 2015, @11:50PM   Printer-friendly
from the never-trusted-those-things-anyways dept.

From the Wichita Eagle:

A Wichita State University mathematician sued the top Kansas election official Wednesday, seeking paper tapes from electronic voting machines in an effort to explain statistical anomalies favoring Republicans in counts coming from large precincts across the country.

Wichita Eagle's coverage

 
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
Display Options Threshold/Breakthrough Mark All as Read Mark All as Unread
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
  • (Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Saturday April 25 2015, @02:46AM

    by hendrikboom (1125) Subscriber Badge on Saturday April 25 2015, @02:46AM (#174937) Homepage Journal

    Why would the election officials ever choose use paper ballots? The whole point of using computers is to perform voting fraud.

    At least, given their reputation for security, I can't imagine any other purpose.

    Starting Score:    1  point
    Karma-Bonus Modifier   +1  

    Total Score:   2  
  • (Score: 3, Informative) by ikanreed on Saturday April 25 2015, @03:53AM

    by ikanreed (3164) Subscriber Badge on Saturday April 25 2015, @03:53AM (#174958) Journal

    You can't imagine any other po$$ibility for why $omeone might want to automate a ta$k?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 25 2015, @06:23PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 25 2015, @06:23PM (#175113)

      Not if making computers preform that task in an adequately safe way costs more than centuries of paper voting, both in terms of money spent and work hours used.