This is the headline of the Miami Herald story about the use of ES&S touch screen machines in the recent primary: Electronic voting machines had hitches, but no glitches: Most problems with the iVotronic in Tuesday's primary were traced to confused poll workers or faulty power supplies, not malfunctioning machines.
Hitches not glitches. Isn't that cute? 'Hitches' rhymes with 'glitches' so it's funny. And, as we all know, a hitch isn't as serious as a glitch so it's also reassuring. And it's important for the Miami Herald to take a completely uncritical, reassuring position about eVoting machines only 60 days before the national election. Otherwise, the public may get nervous and do something. And so even though there were blank screens and low batteries and power source problems. And even though, in the absence of a proper audit, we have no idea at all if the votes were counted accurately, the Miami Herald tells us, courtesy of ES&S, who wouldn't talk to the paper but did issue a press release, which is just as good - or even better because it's easier to print - that we have nothing to worry about:
But ES&S's president and CEO Aldo Tesi posted a release on the Omaha-based company's website lauding the iVotronic's performance in Florida, where 12 counties use the system.
''The success of Tuesday's elections underscores what we have known for a long time: The iVotronic voting system is extremely accurate, reliable, secure, and easy for voters to use,'' Tesi wrote.
Everything is super, people. Go back to sleep. Survivor starts soon and some families on FOX are swapping fathers.
Write to the stenographer here: lyanez@herald.com Remember to be polite when you remind her that we have no idea at all if the machines counted the votes correctly because a proper audit was not performed.
cross posted at my blog