SRC Computers says the SRC-6 allows a user to completely change the machine's "'personality," or way it runs its calculations, based on the task.
"You've gotta actually change the machine, not just how well we see the machine," Zephyr Teachout, the Fordham law professor and anti-corruption crusader who ran for New York governor in 2014 and Congress in 2016 (and is currently running for state attorney general), told me.
"The names change, the faces change, but the machine is still there," Mr. Adachi said.
Over the years, there have been subtle changes in the machine, which was introduced in 1973.
Though the physical changes that the machine measured were "an index of activity," Shepard wrote, the same results "would be caused by so many different circumstances, anything demanding equal activity (intelligence or emotional)." The same criticism holds true today.
Only unemployment can change these men's minds, and only machetes can change the machines'.
The idea of sweeping out clunky old voting machines and sweeping in new and untried machines sounds as if some exasperated bureaucrat decided, O.K., time's up, change the machines now, no matter what.
While I was considering what to do, a gentleman noticed my dilemma, placed the correct change in the machine, and calmly walked away.
