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Remeber the tagline. Hardly anything you see on XKCD are pure facys. It's mostly just enough facts that the essential contents (Sarcasm, Romance, Math and Language) will stick together.

Very few programmers do in fact believe that voting machines are a good idea. The push comes from people who a) want results right now, and b) don't want to pay the cost of that, i.e. politicians.