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The difference between an ATM and a voting machine

I’ve said it before, but Techdirt says it nicely as well:

…banks have much stronger incentives to get things right than election officials. If a criminal succeeds in knocking off an ATM machine, the bank that owns that ATM machine stands to lose a lot of money.

The article was a response to a post last month on voting machines at the University of Chicago’s law school faculty blog.

Update: Greetings to any slashdot readers that might’ve followed my link, but sadly I aimed at the wrong post.  This is the article I meant.

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One Response to “The difference between an ATM and a voting machine”

  1. Glass Box Voting » Blog Archive » Diebold admits ATMs more robust than voting machines Says:
    April 26th, 2008 at 6:41 am

    […] Hat tip to infodiva and slashdot.  Also want to remind new readers of an old post: The difference between an ATM and a voting machine. […]

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