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Michael Winship: Still a Few Bugs in the System | BuzzFlash

New York State has another year to go before we start using them new-fangled, electronic voting machines. But if a look at what's happening in other parts of the country is any indication, we are blessed by the delay. Under current circumstances, we should be dragged kicking and screaming into the future.

The computer-based systems are so screwed up, voting absentee may be the only safe way you can be sure your ballot will be counted.

In fact, Denver's Rocky Mountain News reported last week that the Colorado Democratic Party had urged state voters to do just that, "to avoid potential fraud, after a key state official said in a deposition that he certified the computer voting equipment even though he has no college education in computer science and did little security testing."

That's an understatement -- the apparatchik in question said he performed 15 minutes of security checks and made no attempt to hack into the system, which even to an aging Luddite like me would seem to be, like, Plan A from the High Tech Crimestoppers' Notebook.