Bytes in the Margin

Jason was right in predicting that elections in Fairfax County were handed over to an electronic system that failed because officials didn't understand it well enough. Turns out that yesterday's voting was marred by glitches:
The new machines, meant to simplify voting, made the tallying of the votes more problematic. More than half of precinct officials ...

Jason Lefkowitz wrote about this two weeks ago and detailed how Fairfax County was not concerned with security flaws in system it purchased. Election officials pretty much admitted that they spent $3.5 million on a system they didn't understand.
Meanwhile, one vendor, Diebold is trying to suppress information about flaws in its system which could make it...