Berkeley: Bush Wins, Electronic Voting Loses

Some Berkeley researches got together to analyze the results of the 2004 Florida election. After the 2000 election with its scads of hanging, pregnant, and missing chads, the Florida election commission replaced hundreds of old optical scan ballot-readers with new touchscreen voting machines. Security experts cautioned that the Diebold machines were insecure and open to potential hackers of many kinds. So, when Bush won Florida in 2004, a group of Berkeley scientists went to work to question the results. After all, there is no way Bush could have actually won, right? Actually, the analaysis shows that while Bush probably won by fewer votes than the official tally, at worst he still won the state by over 100,000 votes.