Tech Daily Dose: 17,000 Incidents And Counting http://techdailydose.nationaljournal.com/2006/11/17000-incidents-and-counting.php?rss=1 en Copyright 2010 Wed, 08 Nov 2006 05:31:49 GMT http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 17,000 Incidents And Counting Electronic voting machine failures kept some polls from opening, created long lines and left many voters puzzled about whether their votes were counted in Tuesday's election, the Electronic Frontier Foundation said. The watchdog group joined a nationwide team of technology lawyers and other experts staffing call centers and legal command posts throughout the day. By 8 p.m. ET, over 17,000 incidents, including machine-related problems, had been reported to the Election Protection Coalition's 866-OUR-VOTE hotline.

"If election officials insist on depending on this unreliable technology, they should be prepared to react appropriately when things go wrong," EFF Legal Director Cindy Cohn said. "Voters should not have to bear the brunt of this poor planning. We are very disappointed that the court did not recognize that."

Read more about EFF's e-voting campaign here.

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