Florida eVoting Records Go Kerflouey

The New York Times is reporting that all records from the last gubernatorial election - the first to use all-touch-screen voting - have been lost after two server crashes. This was to be the beginning of a new era for Florida elections, free from the hanging-chad-mania that humiliated the southern state during the 2000 presidential election. Now, instead, they are being humiliated by their computers. Ah, progress.

More proof - a reminder I do not personally need after events of this week - that you always need to back up everything on your computers, whether personal or governmental. And that putting any system onto a computer does not make it inherently better or more stable or secure than the paper version. It just means it is easier to make it look snazzy.