"Glitches" "hiccups" "snags" and "snafus"

Welcome to election 2006.
Brad Freidman in Huffington Post:

The headline is "Voting Glitches Feared on Nov. 7", but as a close reading of the article goes on to reveal, these are not "voting glitches". They are not even "glitches". They are voting machine company and elections officials FAILURES. Period. End of story. Got that?

The story rightly refers to "a virtual meltdown" from last spring's primary in Chicago and Cook County, and goes on to add that vote totals can be completely fried...

[I]t will still be possible for workers to accidentally fry vote totals if they forget to disconnect the power from ballot scanners before data cartridges are removed at the end of the night.

"We don't want you to erase any of the memory," warned Gail Weisberg, Cook County's equipment manager coordinator, during a training class last week in Hoffman Estates.

So vote totals can be entirely "fried" and yet we're actually using this system on November 7th?! Moreover, note the language above that says it's "possible for workers" to fry the vote totals. Instead of the more appropriate, "it's possible that the poorly designed systems could have their entire vote totals fried."

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