Robot Voting
The Washington State Quarter Advisory Commission has learned what everyone else on the Internet has known for years: Cheating is rampant online. The state's official contest to choose a design for its quarter has been suspended because of ballot stuffing.
As AP writer Curt Woodward put it, "Robotic computer programs stuffed the online ballot boxes in a contest for Washington's official state quarter design, forcing technicians to suspend voting."
I have to wonder about the use of the adjective "robotic." It seems overly sinister in this case, as if there's been some sort of Terminator-style machine uprising. Are there non-robotic computer programs?
Undaunted, state officials are having another go at it: The poll is now open again and the counter has been reset to zero. Bring on the robots.
