Tag Archive 'e-voting'

Voting accidents and other avoidable tragedies

(This post originally appeared on Infoworld’s Notes From the Field blog.)
by Robert X. Cringely
When I was in school I learned that the difference between comedy and tragedy is that one of them ends in death and the other in marriage. (But I could never remember which is which, which may be why I have such [...]

Geek Week: E-voting experts and nymphomaniacs wanted, inquire within

(This entry originally appeared in Infoworld’s Notes from the Field blog.)
by Robert X. Cringely
I met a gin-soaked barroom queen…. While I was digging through the Net looking for the skinny on Sequoia Voting Systems and its mystery contractor Kwaidan Consulting (aka Mike Gibbons), the Bradblog’s Brad Friedman was doing the same. He managed to unearth [...]

Smoking guns and broken voting machines

(This post originally appeared on Infoworld’s Notes From the Field blog.)
by Robert X. Cringely

My last post about Sequoia Voting Systems and its painfully stupid e-voting machines inspired both cheers and jeers from the Cringe faithful.
Cringester E. N. believes we should all just grow up and accept that mistakes happen (though he seems to also believe [...]

Sequoia and e-voting: The best government money can buy

(This post originally appeared on Infoworld’s Notes From the Field blog.)
by Robert X. Cringely

I don’t know if you’ve noticed lately, but our elected officials are being determined by people who can’t do simple math or write a comprehensible sentence in English. And no, I don’t mean people who voted for Rudy Guiliani. I’m talking about [...]