In this Young Turks interview, political correspondent Michael Shure talks about his experience in trying to vote early in a California congressional primary between challenger Marcy Winograd and incumbent Jane Harman. Shure voted on a touch screen Diebold machine; when the ballot showed the congressional race, the candidate name on the screen was congressman Henry Waxman, who is running unopposed in another district!California allows early voting, and so the error was caught a week before next Tuesday's official primary date. Shure describes how the poll worker cancelled out the vote with the press of a button and allowed him to redo the entire ballot. How many voters would have just assumed that Waxman was the correct choice on the screen? How can voters be sure the "glitch" has been fixed?
Just one more example of why touch screen voting machines need to be retired until the myriad of problems they exhibit are worked out.
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