xkcd on voting machines

found on xkcd (of course)...

haha, too funny... yes indeed, someone is doing their job horribly wrong, and in this case it's making voting machines out of desktop computers... once upon a time there were these things called special purpose computers that you didn't have to worry about running strange and possibly malicious code because they were physically incapable of doing so... it's so much cheaper and easier to use off-the-shelf components, however, so the real problem with these voting machines is that the people who made them were lazy cheapskates...