[IP] more on Diebold sez "glitch-free," just don't touch those touchscreens - Engadget

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org>
Date: October 5, 2006 2:04:05 PM EDT
To: David Farber <dave@farber.net>
Cc: Frode Hegland <frode@hyperwords.net>
Subject: Re: [IP] Diebold sez "glitch-free," just don't touch those  
touchscreens - Engadget

(a) I know I'm not the first person to point this out, and (b) I'm not
quibbling with Frode, but...

There are NOT "glitches".   A "glitch" is something along the lines
of a momentary delay in processing, or a misdrawn graphic in a GUI,
or a typo in a screen message, or something equally transient/minor.

These problems are failures of core system functionality.

I'm sure Diebold would like the press and everyone else to continue
to minimize them by calling them "glitches", but I don't think we
should oblige them.  Exercise of the franchise is a right for which
people have fought and died; trivializing a failure of that process
by calling it a "glitch" is disengenuous and insulting.

---Rsk



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