| Seriously, I crashed the electronic voting machines in the last presidential election four times. The nasty woman in charge was totally freaking out, she accused me of doing it on purpose and wanted to deny me my constitutional right to vote due to hardware failure believe it or not.
I offered to vote with the curtains open and everyone in the room observing - I don't care who knows how I vote - but they said that would be a violation of federal law (as if denying me my voting rights wasn't!).
Eventually I got them to let me use another machine (the nasty woman had to be over-ruled by the state election commissioner, via cell phone, because she insisted I'd ruin the other machine if I were allowed to touch it).
The problem was a bad switch sensor on the write-in vote mechanism. I told them so, but they got even more upset when they discovered I understand how the machine works better than they do. Only the Democratic observer made any attempt to help me - even though I was polite, well-dressed and soft-spoken - the rest of them (including the people waiting behind me for their turns to vote) all did not care if I was not permitted to cast my vote, they just considered me an impediment to their lifestyles.
In a nutshell, many problems of the US electoral system illustrated.
--Charlie | 
