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Are design issues to blame for vote flipping in touch-screen machines?

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Are design issues to blame for vote flipping in touch-screen machines?

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Computerworld – Are some touch-screen voting machines really “flipping” votes from one candidate to another, or are the voters who claim their votes are being changed just wrong? With the U.S elections just days away, some voters in some states, including West Virginia, Texas and Tennessee, have reported that electronic touch-screen voting machines are “flipping” their votes to another candidate on the screen. When those allegations are made, e-voting hardware vendors and local election officials usually blame errant fingers, overhanging jewelry or clothing — or they argue that the touch screens weren’t properly calibrated. But continuing reports about flipping — sporadic though they may be — raise questions about the machines themselves, such as when they were designed and what kind of usability testing was done. (For more about e-voting technology, see our Voting technology 2008 page.) Computerworld asked the four major e-voting machine vendors to talk about how their hardware was

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