Electronic Voting Problems in a Nutshell

Agent Ska, the tireless champion of all that's progressive in Pittsburgh, was on-hand when an electronic voting machine in Pittsburgh's (primarily black and far from affluent) Hill District simply stopped working during yesterday's elections.

Nice.

Between issues like this, the lack of a paper trail and the foreboding warning the election volunteer gave me ("Make sure you press the big green square at the end of your voting or else, not only will your votes not be counted, it'll crash our machines"), I'd say the modern election system needs more than a bit of work.

So -- who's up for dissolving the Electoral College before 2008?

(PS The second video in the link above is the best -- it shows the machine blinking in all its futility.)