I would have posted this as a comment to Kid Oakland's excellent entry, but 500+ comments was already a bit much.
I agree with Kid, but for a different reason. It's becoming clear to me that the problems with voting machines have little to do with actual fraud and a lot to do with sheer incompetence on the part of the computer programmers. I was a professional programmer for over a decade, including 3 years as a software engineer for IBM, and I have a graduate degree in Computer Science, so I have some idea of what I'm talking about.
Here's the story that tipped me off: Broward Machines Count Backwards. The story describes a problem in the software from ES&S: once a vote count goes over about 32,000, it starts going down. This actually happened in Broward County, Florida when the elections board was processing absentee ballots. The same software is used in Miami-Dade.
Is this evidence of tampering with Democratic counties? Alas, no. It's evidence of sheer incompetence at ES&S. I explain after the break.
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