The urgency of e-voting reform
Cato Institute
by Lawrence Norden and Timothy B. Lee
08/09/07
The 2008 primary season won’t kick off until next January, but we’re ready to offer one surefire prediction for Election Day 2008. If our elected officials don’t move quickly, millions of Americans will make their choice for the next president on unreliable electronic voting machines without any paper record of their vote. Regardless of your political leanings, that’s a troubling thought. In the aftermath of the 2000 Florida recount, Congress approved hundreds of millions of dollars for states and counties to purchase and install electronic voting machines. The hope was that electronic voting would eliminate punch cards and hanging chads from the political lexicon and guarantee error-free elections in the future. It hasn’t worked out that way...
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=8625
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=e-voting
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=voting+machines
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Lawrence+Norden
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Timothy+B.+Lee
by Lawrence Norden and Timothy B. Lee
08/09/07
The 2008 primary season won’t kick off until next January, but we’re ready to offer one surefire prediction for Election Day 2008. If our elected officials don’t move quickly, millions of Americans will make their choice for the next president on unreliable electronic voting machines without any paper record of their vote. Regardless of your political leanings, that’s a troubling thought. In the aftermath of the 2000 Florida recount, Congress approved hundreds of millions of dollars for states and counties to purchase and install electronic voting machines. The hope was that electronic voting would eliminate punch cards and hanging chads from the political lexicon and guarantee error-free elections in the future. It hasn’t worked out that way...
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=8625
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=e-voting
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=voting+machines
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Lawrence+Norden
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Timothy+B.+Lee
rudkla - 13. Aug, 13:50
