CONCERN over electronic voting reached new levels in California last week, as the state government issued two damning reports on the technology used in the March presidential primaries.
The reports support those computer scientists and election officials who have argued that today’s e-voting machines are unreliable and open to fraud (Â鶹´«Ã½, 14 February, p 6). The first report highlights numerous problems with reliability.
For instance, 55 per cent of the polling stations in San Diego County could not open on time because of problems with e-voting machines manufactured by Diebold Election Systems of North Canton, Ohio.
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