A life prediction methodology requires a robust procedure for characterizing fatigue effects in conjunction with manufacturing and machining flaws.
That kind of attitude, coupled with a history of machine flaws, could equal an election bottleneck.
For a start, most new machines have "bugs" — flaws in the Basic language, the operating system, and often the hardware, too.
Senator Bill Nelson, Democrat of Florida, has asked the Justice Department to conduct an audit of touch-screen voting machines throughout Florida, saying that apparent flaws in the machines could violate the Voting Rights Act.
PAGE A11 FLAWS TO REMAIN IN POLL MACHINES Flaws in voting machines used by millions of people will not be fixed in time for the presidential election because of a government backlog in testing the machines' hardware and software.
Mistakes of leaders and flaws in machines are openly discussed.
Nor was I overwhelmed by the iMac, which struck me as merely Mac Redux, further proof that as a product designer, Jobs was a one-trick pony doomed to create the same machine (with the same flaws in ergonomics and memory) over and over again.
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.
The 2000 presidential election debacle in Florida, with its hanging chads and uncounted votes, highlighted the deep flaws in voting machine technology — and in the industry.
Flaws in voting machines used by millions of people will not be fixed in time for the presidential election because of a government backlog in testing the machines' hardware and software, officials say.
