Poll worker slaps voting kiosk to bring it to life
February 6, 2008
Wired: A San Francisco attorney says that after a touchscreen voting machine he was using froze and gave him the "red screen of death," a poll worker lifted the machine from behind and slapped it hard on its backside. The machine reportedly came to life and rebooted. Attorney Kevin Ho describes how, when he arrived to his California polling place to vote in the primary, workers offered him a "paper or plastic" option — paper being the optical-scan machine that uses paper ballots, and plastic being a touchscreen voting machine.