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October 26, 2004 | Comments: (0)
E-voting worries abound
With this nailbiter of a presidential election just days away, its clear that technology will play a key role in tabulating and authenticating the results.
E-voting promised efficiency on scale that paper-based systems, with their hanging chads, could never match.
Yet controversy surrounds the new systems. IDG News Service, in a series of articles from across the country, shows the extent of the problems facing e-voting.
Security advocates raised dozens of concerns about direct electronic recording machines (DREs) in use in 27 states.
Technology industry representatives, however, say humans are more likely cause problems than machines.
Skeptical development teams plan to use Web and open source toolkits to monitor the elections.
But before a winner is ultimately declared, old fashioned methods will be deployed: lawyers. A lawsuit challenging e-voting has already been filed in New Jersey, and more are expected.
Posted by Jack McCarthy on October 26, 2004 11:40 AM
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