Monday, January 07, 2008

Can You Count on Voting Machines?

A Slashdot post points to a lengthy article published last Sunday by the NY Times regarding new voting technologies and their shortcomings, as one-by-one, states renounce the use of touch-screen voting machines.

It comes as no surprise then that, after a series of incidents in the last few years, Diebold, a company know at one time primarily for making safes and A.T.M.'s, tried to sell off its voting-machine business. After failing to find a buyer, Diebold changed the name of the division last August to 'Premier Election Solutions'.

See complete article at  
The New York Times Magazine
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