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A technology too far.(INTERNET VOTING?)(direct recording electronic voting)
American Prospect, The, May, 2006 by Keisling, Phil
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TOUCH-SCREEN, COMPUTERIZED BALLOTS--OFFICIALLY known as Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) voting systems--are not a way station to a glorious, all-Internet future for American democracy. They're a technology cul-de-sac.
An election system should be accessible, simple, and efficient. But it must also be as secure, risk-free, and confidence-inducing as possible. Reacting to the Florida 2000 election debacle, Congress, through the Help America Vote Act, gave states nearly $3 billion to update their election systems. Great idea. But paper ballots generally--chads or no--were ...
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