I guess it’s a good thing, even though these same “unfit” machines helped get W. in office the first time. In December alone, top election officials in Ohio and Colorado declared that widely used voting equipment is unfit for elections.
“Every system that is out there, one state or another has found that they are no good,” said John Gideon of the advocacy group Voters Unite. “Everybody is starting to look at this now and starting to realize that there is something wrong.”
The swing states of California, Ohio and Florida have found that security on touch-screen voting machines is inadequate. Testers have been able to disable the systems and even change vote totals.