Cheat the Vote, Part 2: Data Erasure Boogaloo

Dateline, where else: Florida.

A computer crash erased detailed records from Miami-Dade County's first widespread use of touchscreen voting machines, raising again the specter of election troubles in Florida, where the new technology was supposed to put an end to such problems.

Just preparing you for the inevitable shitstorm that will be the November presidential election.

There are several widely known methods for redundantly protecting against data loss. Is Florida using any of those methods? Nobody knows, since the computer systems used to store election results, and the source code of the software that runs those systems, are not open to the public, as they should be.