Tuesday, October 26, 2004
watching the voting... methods
If you think the country is divided and rancorous about the presidential contest, try polling a few experts about the accuracy and security of electronic voting.
"Clark County has used electronic voting since 1996, and it's been very successful," says Larry Lomax, registrar of voters in the Nevada county that includes Las Vegas. "We've never lost results, ever in Clark County."
But there are plenty of concerns to go around.
"With the paper-based system you can see the ballots being marked, you can see them going into a ballot box, if you have good laws you can go watch them count the ballots, and with electronic voting all of that stuff is hidden inside the machines," says David Dill, a computer scientist at Stanford University.
CNN. com - October 26, 2004
Voting methods under close watch
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