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Electronic Voting Machines: Programmed for Failure?

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What if your computer had to be replaced every month or two " ATMs failed to work properly 10% of the time " your cell phone broke down every ten days?

Current federal standards allow almost 10% of electronic voting machines to fail every Election Day, according to "DRE Reliability: Failure by Design?" a new report issued by the VoteTrustUSA E-Voter Education Project. The report notes that the acceptable failure rate is even higher - approaching 25% -- in a 5-day early voting period.
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Joan Brunwasser is a co-founder of Citizens for Election Reform (CER) which since 2005 existed for the sole purpose of raising the public awareness of the critical need for election reform. Our goal: to restore fair, accurate, transparent, secure elections where votes are cast in private and counted in public. Because the problems with electronic (computerized) voting systems include a lack of (more...)
 

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