electronic voting machines

The November 2006 elections that will decide the make-up of the U.S. Congress and state and local governments are facing more uncertainty than any election to date. Instead of “Democrat or Republican,” the more pressing question has become “accurate count or complete debacle?” More than 60 million Americans will be casting their votes on electronic voting machines for the first time. Some fear human and machine error, both of which have occurred in almost all electronic voting since the machines were introduced in limited scope in 2002. Others fear a darker foe, and it’s not just conspiracy theorists: For the past three or four years, computer scientists have been tampering with voting machines to prove it can be done.… Read More...