sidney
August 16th, 2008, 07:25 PM
You may have seen the news reports about Ohio suing the company formerly known as Diebold over votes that were lost without being tabulated, and Diebold's claim that the problem was the result of McAffee antivirus software that was installed on the voting machines blocking transmission of some of the results to the central servers.
I'm posting this in the "Non-Tap Technical" forum as a technical issue rather than a political one in the Taproom, because I found what I consider the best technical explanation for the layperson of what is wrong with that:
From XKCD (http://xkcd.com/463/):
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/voting_machines.png
I'm posting this in the "Non-Tap Technical" forum as a technical issue rather than a political one in the Taproom, because I found what I consider the best technical explanation for the layperson of what is wrong with that:
From XKCD (http://xkcd.com/463/):
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/voting_machines.png