Road to e-voting crisis paved with money, good intentions

Ars Technica by Jon Stokes | Apr. 7, 2008 (Opinion)

However, a Maryland voting activist organization, SAVEOurVotes.org, has released a report [PDF] on the costs of e-voting that (quite unintentionally) provides a useful and vivid illustration of exactly how and why we arrived at the present point. In a nutshell, there's one single event that set in motion the years-long train wreck that has been America's experiment with electronic voting: the 2002 passage of the Help America Vote Act (HAVA). Full Story »

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As I read this I thought of all the details that it missed. But the core argument that it makes it well founded, it provides good evidence, and is easy to read.

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