Poor Touch Screen Layout Designed To Favor Republicans
Once again Americans are being duped. In West Virgina a Republican stronghold that is leaning ever closer to Barack Obama they are now having problems with the voting machines switching a vote from one candidate to another. Not surprising it consistently gives the votes to Republicans in places where they are needed the most. So is this some nefarious plot of a neocon racist christian hacker appalled at the idea of a black president? Nope this is far easier to spot.
The culprit here is bright and as the election official it is simply someone one button when they think they are pushing another. This happens all the time to every ordinary people who touch anything. It is the reason people soME TIMES TYPE with the freaking caps on and not even know it. Unlike the caps lock key which is designed so you can get to it quickly while touch typing, these touch screens are design to take advantage of the situation.
Any good touch screen designer knows two things. First if you want the selections to be accurate they need to have sufficient space between them. Secondly if you want to skew the results it is easy to design an interface to design the screen to take advantage of the situation. The designers of the West Virginia system no doubt no both of these things, or they should. If they don’t the company that designed the interface need to fire their designers.
This design might not be nefarious in nature, but it sorely fails in the perception of impropriety test!
