E-vote tab adds up to big trouble

Democracy isn't cheap, but it sure used to be less expen- sive.
Switching from punch cards to touch-screen voting machines doubled the cost of this year's election.
And taxpayers will continue to hand over millions of dollars to machine-maker Diebold as long as the state uses the equipment.
"I'm not sure any of us realized how much it is going to cost to own and operate this system," said Michael Cragun, elections director for the ... Full Story »

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Laura Perkins
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by Laura Perkins - Oct. 1, 2008

A discussion of the financial costs of moving to a Diebold system without any discussion of the parallel cost to election integrity seems flawed. What's likely to happen is that local areas will pay the huge financial cost, then new federal rules will make them change their systems again because of the accuracy problems.

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