It seems like e-voting snafus are like weather: there’s
always a bit of a storm somewhere, and now and then you get a big one. Although
we can thank our lucky stars that we haven’t had a real hurricane, an
electronic equivalent of Florida in 2000, the recent
Arkansas vote-flipping
snafu might qualify as a force 9 gale.

And because this time it is clear the outcome of the race
was also flipped, this case of Arkansas State House District 45 in 2008 might

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Thanks to election technology expert Noel Runyan, I can
explain another reason why the U.S.
election systems market is under-served by today’s for-profit vendors of
election technology. (And to read up on several other reasons, see Noel’s
congressional testimony.)

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