"We know that on Nov. 4, voting systems will fail somewhere," says Lawrence Norden, director of voting technology at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law. "There is no perfect system. All of these systems have problems." Full Story »
Posted by Fabrice Florin
USA Today taps what has been one of the top voter concerns in this thorough and well written report on voting equipment. Good context, examples and background on the hasty attempts to upgrade technology. The author does a fine job identifying ballot issues and machine malfunction as real problems that are not isolated. The "What could go wrong" section at the end is especially helpful. Recommended.
I'm pleased to say that I've voted in every election, including local elections, since I turned 18 and I've never had to use a Diebold machine. The voting technology my college used in its student government elections was more sophisticated and reliable. I have yet to have it demonstrated to me that electronic voting is any safer or more accurate than paper.