Dell is apparently going to design a computerized voting system to try to eliminate errors in the current chad-based tabulations which caused so much hoo-ha in Florida last year. What’s alternatively funny and horrifying to me is that I believe it will be impossible to design a system that a fair number of people will not be able to screw up. Some of those Florida ballots may have been slightly confusing. But if you can’t figure out how to make your mark for Bush or Gore, should you really be voting at all?
And as Jimmy Fallon said on Weekend Update, “Oh, that’s a good idea. We know how much elderly people love computers.”