Wednesday, June 30, 2004

From CNET:

E-voting: Nightmare or nirvana?
Last modified:June 30, 2004, 4:00 AM PDT
By Paul Festa
Staff Writer, CNET News.com

If electronic voting were to face an international referendum, it would almost certainly lose.

Once the province of a small group of election officials and equipment sellers, e-voting has exploded into the popular consciousness because of a spreading controversy over security and verifiability. Thanks to a concerted effort by opponents and to the missteps of voting machine vendor Diebold Election Systems, most of the news has been bad.

The fight is being waged around the world--in legislative chambers and state agencies, on newspaper editorial pages and over the Internet--as voting rights advocates and computer scientists hash out the technology's merits and risks in an increasingly polarized debate.

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