Do electronic voting machines really fail one out of five times?

Slate by Nina Shen Rastogi | Oct. 27, 2008 (Opinion)

The complaint asserts that 10 percent to 20 percent of the direct-recording electronic voting machines used in Pennsylvania are likely to fail on Nov. 4. The machines will be used in 34 percent of counties around the United States. Are they really so bad that they fail one out of five times? Full Story »

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 by Mike LaBonte - Oct. 28, 2008

This has good links, and gets right to the point. I like that the author uses calculated error probabilities to gain insight. But claiming both that failure rates are unknown, and that certification requires a maximum allowable failure rate doesn't make sense.

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