We haven’t had a good e-voting screw-up story in a while, but then again it hasn’t been election season.
But hold an election, like many states did earlier this week, and a few will pop up.
The most interesting occurred in California, where Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger went to cast his ballot and was told he had already voted. Which he had not. Unless you live in Chicago, this is a problem.
According to the AP: “The snafu was traced back to tests of electronic voting systems carried out last month. Schwarzenegger’s name was used to test whether local voting computers were properly linked to the network but official forgot to cancel this transaction, creating the impression that the ‘Terminator’ star had already cast his ballot when he showed up at a polling station in the Brentwood district of Los Angeles earlier this week. It’s unclear whether or not anybody else was affected.”
Via The Register
