"We got five machines — one of them's got to work." Take that quote from an Ohio election official as your inspiration when you vote today. The Associated Press says electronic voting machines are causing headaches (and maybe stolen elections, whatever) all over the country. Some machines are just down all morning.

I never thought I'd say this, but...can we get some help from a Web 2.0 company?

Really, right now I have more faith in a thumbs-up on Digg than in those Diebold touchscreen machines.

Seriously, why is the tech industry so apolitical this year? Why did Wired just buy the voting system on Reddit when they could buy an election instead? If Google needs some political capital, why not toss some of those billions at a sturdier vote-caching machine?

And where the hell is Apple designer Jon Ives? At least he'd make the machines too beautiful to smash.

Poll workers struggle with vote machines [Yahoo]

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