The New York Times is reporting that polling places across the country are experiencing difficulties with their voting equipment, and while we'd loveto place the blame squarely on shady manufacturers like Diebold, Sequoia, and friends, it seems that the complications are actually due to human error as much as faulty hardware.
Closing branches while laying the blame for doing so elsewhere is something many a French bank would loveto do, but cost-cutting in France's overcrowded retail-banking industry has been hampered by political opposition to job losses.