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Originally Posted by Dean
I think the media will have an absolute conniption from not being able to "call" states before the polls close and the talking heads will explode with mindless drivel from the shear indeterminacy of it all.
In the end, if it is remotely close, lawyers will be involved and possibly ultimately the supreme court.
Voting machines incorrectly calibrated by people who still own VCRs blinking 12:00 will be blamed rather than the voters not bothering to look at the screen and move their fingers accordingly to make the right box be checked.
The world will not end regardless of whom is ultimately elected, and the Partisanship of the congress will continue and with still split houses gridlock will continue which might well be the best for the country.
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The issues of touch screen calibration errors would be drastically reduced if the software simply showed one race at a time so there's room enough on the screen that candidate's buttons don't need to be directly next to each other.
I don't know why the voting machines seem to be designed, built, and programmed by a bunch of weekend web developers. We should have the same guys that are building control systems for cruise missiles take a month off to create a secure, robust, foolproof voting machine.