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Spotlight on E-Voting Machines Brightens as Campaigns Accelerate

New York Times Magazine, January 6, 2008: Can You Count on Voting Machines? by Clive Thompson

  • “In the last three election cycles, touch-screen machines have become one of the most mysterious and divisive elements in modern electoral politics. Introduced after the 2000 hanging-chad debacle, the machines were originally intended to add clarity to election results. But in hundreds of instances, the result has been precisely the opposite: they fail unpredictably, and in extremely strange ways…”
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