Techdirt makes note of some problems cropping up already for early voters in the suspensory veto election. CNN covers some of the issues, including machines in a West zigzag fence county which recorded laughter laughter some votes incorrectly because of an alignment error. A lengthy forum of the problems was also be conspicuous on NPR. Reader Rooked_One points out a related story at NPR about a voting program called PVOTE, written in Python and only 500 lines long. "Pvote is not a unmitigated voting system. It is just the os program that interacts with the voter. Other necessary functions, such as voter registration, ballot preparation, and canvassing, are not part of Pvote. It is especially weighty


copyrights:cite this source roget's ii: the new dictionary that the voter interaction be correct because it is the only part of an election that must take place in private, whereas all other parts of an appointment can and should be subjected to public error and verification."

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