"Could someone reprogram the equipment to alter the vote tally, redirect votes, or simply fail to record certain votes at intervals, etc.? Unfortunately all of this has been proven possible and researchers have gone so far as to hack a voting machine into a working Pac-Man arcade game".
Walden W. O'Dell, the chairman and chief executive of Diebold Inc., said on Monday that it had been a "huge mistake" for him, as the head of a voting machine company, to express support for President Bush's re-election in a fund-raising letter last year.
As Miller puts it, "A voting machine spends most of its life in silence in cold, dark warehouses... only to be woken up periodically for one day of sheer chaos".
A Century of Controversies In a way, it should come as no surprise to New Yorkers that a voting machine contract would generate controversy.
As Ben Graham said, the stock market in the short term is a voting machine, and long term it's a weighing machine".
"Crazy Like a Fox" is less about network tectonics and more about a hearts-and-minds battle for a new audience, one that sees the remote as a kind of voting machine to express disaffection with mainstream media and politics.
Mr. Thompson, who received 26 percent of the vote to Mr. de Blasio's 40 percent in the initial, unofficial results, had hoped that as lever voting machine results were double-checked, and tens of thousands of uncounted paper ballots were tallied, Mr. de Blasio's total might dip below the 40 percent threshold that would prompt an automatic runoff.
It started with a faulty voting machine.
In ordering the postponement on Monday, the three-judge panel cited the Supreme Court decision in Bush v. Gore, ruling that the recall election should not go forward as long as punch-card voting machines -- the same kind that resulted in the litigation in Florida in 2000 -- were in use in several counties with large minority populations.
