Concorde was a lost cause – a fatally flawed time machine for different times.
The Queens Democratic machine, flawed though its vessels often are (former State Comptroller Alan G. Hevesi is among its alumni now living rent-free in a state prison), used to be able to drive denizens to the polls.
On Tuesday, Yogasingam, a tech researcher for hardware industry publication EE Times, dissected two lackluster Apple products from years' past the early handheld Newton and the gaming machine Pippin at the Embedded Systems Conference here, tearing off the devices' covers and prying off their components to analyze the machines' flawed guts.
William Galvin, then as now the Massachusetts secretary of state, said the case showed how flawed the punch-card machines were and had prompted him to ban their use.
The Miami-Dade Election Reform Coalition, the same group that uncovered the loss of the 2002 records, also discovered through a public-records request this spring that the audit log functions in Miami-Dade's touch-screen machines were flawed.
But don't fret: the TSA says the test results are flawed, and that the machines truly are safe as can be.
Although DNDO officials claimed that the prototypes of detectors developed under the program had proved to be effective, the Government Accountability Office found last year that the tests used by DNDO to evaluate the machines were flawed.
The roll out of the new electronic voting machines was flawed, drawing the ire of the public and spurring elected officials to berate the Board of Elections.
Critics of the new guidelines say they are flawed because they allow voting machine vendors to do some of the performance and security testing themselves.
