Never be caught in the dark again and support TNPC in the process. Little noticed in all the political brouhaha is the fact that all the legal proceedings have worked from the premise that the technology did not fail. If data is not entered properly, you can repeat the computer run from now to the end of time and still not correct anything. The stakes go far beyond voting. Software has bugs.
Humans make errors.
What the Florida dispute has shown is that the law has not fully come to grips with this reality. One would have to recognize, however, that the counts would not necessarily be identical because of the inherent margin of error in the technology. But it is a technical reality that if there is a data problem with a data media, then the media reader will never be able to read it. It should be a matter of serious public concern that the Florida Supreme Court apparently had to invent law to order a manual recount of the undervotes, a procedure that should have been a first step. The U.S. Supreme Court has since ruled that there is no foundation in federal or Florida law to do that.