An issue described as a technical error meant the Erie County Legislature could not
vote Thursday on
electronic cigarette regulations and has to go
back through the entire process.
«If you have a machine collecting and recording
votes with an
electronic ballot box there's no way to go
back after the fact and see if the machine made a mistake, whether through malice or simple software error,» says Stanford University computer science professor David Dill and founder of Verified Voting Foundation, a nonpartisan election watchdog.