Remember 2000? How about 2004?

Since the American election cycle is in its final (and least reasonable phase).  I thought I’d start paying a bit more attention.

So for now, just a reminder.

A recent article in the Washington Post reminds us of the wonders of electronic voting machines:

A voting system used in 34 states contains a critical programming error that can cause votes to be dropped while being electronically transferred from memory cards to a central tallying point, the manufacturer acknowledges.

The flawed software is on both touch screen and optical scan voting machines made by Premier and the problem with vote counts is most likely to affect larger jurisdictions that feed many memory cards to a central counting database rapidly.

Yeah, it’s not like the last couple of elections were swung by tight electoral colleges and narrow state margins.  It’s not like they required recounts and supreme court rulings or anything.  A few votes lost in a state like Ohio or Florida couldn’t actually make a difference could they?

(h/t Big Contrarian)