60,000 votes not counted in last year's New York state elections

They replaced the mechanical pull-arm machines with mark/scan systems. The main issue involved people who incorrectly voted for multiple people in single races, or who did not correctly mark out a mistake. The big problem is that if this is not fixed for next year's presidential race, they estimate that the number of uncounted votes could easily be 100,000.

These are not Sequoia/Diebold electronic voting machines, but it is possible the scanners were made by one of them.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/12/40000-votes-uncounted-in-ny/all/1

Not exactly a an inspiring vote of confidence

"No government in the world kills its people, unless it is led by a crazy person."
— Syrian President Bashar al-Assad

In one form or another, almost every government kills its own people. War, military training accidents, overzealous police getting out of control, some would argue capitol punishment. But based on outside observation, you don't have a leg to stand on, Bashar.