E-Voting Deadline Looms

Lamont Wood of TechnologyReview.com writes:

Election officials must decide by January 1 which electronic voting system is least likely to cause problems next November.

The mid-term elections of 2006 are still 11 months away, but they’ve already generated a controversy - not over politics, but about what technology should be used to count all the votes.

After the voting fiascoes during the 2000 presidential election, Congress passed the Help America Vote Act, which offered a total of $3.2 billion to the states to improve their vote-counting processes, most notably to replace the punch card systems that were exposed as so flawed during the recounting in Florida. States that took the money must use replacement systems in all elections after January 1, 2006. Yet widespread rancor persists over which new system is best.

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