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Re:Soon all the voting machines in U.S. will be powered by F... by shmerl on Sunday August 25, 2019 @01:05AM (#20791464)
What were they running on until now?
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Re:Soon all the voting machines in U.S. will be powered by F... by jerkstate on Sunday August 25, 2019 @01:40AM (#20791542)
Windows 7

from https://apnews.com/e5e070c31f3c497fa9e6875f426ccde1

> An Associated Press analysis has found that like many counties in Pennsylvania, the vast majority of 10,000 election jurisdictions nationwide use Windows 7 or an older operating system to create ballots, program voting machines, tally votes and report counts.

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Re:Soon all the voting machines in U.S. will be powered by F... by deelowe on Sunday August 25, 2019 @02:18AM (#20791625)
Definitely not windows 7 in my town. Looks more like 2k.
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Re:Soon all the voting machines in U.S. will be powered by F... by lxhmj on Sunday August 25, 2019 @05:07AM (#20792063)
Might have been 7 with the classic theme? It looks basically like 2000
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