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Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Study: Electronic voting machines in 43 states are out of date

When Americans head to the polls for next year's presidential election, 43 states will be using electronic voting machines that are at least a decade old, according to a new study from New York University School of Law's Brennan Center for Justice released Tuesday. And the price tag for replacement machines could top $1 billion.

Fifteen years after the term "hanging chad" entered the American political lexicon, and Congress appropriated $2 billion to move to electronic voting systems to avoid a future conundrum, those same electronic systems are still in use in many jurisdictions.

“No one expects a laptop to last for 10 years. How can we expect these machines, many of which were designed and engineered in the 1990s, to keep running without increased failures?” said Lawrence Norden, deputy director of the Center’s Democracy Program, and co-author of the study, in a statement. “Old equipment can have serious security flaws, and the longer we delay purchasing new machines, the higher the risk. To avoid a new technology crisis every decade, we must plan for and invest in voting technology for the 21st century.”

The biggest risk in waiting, the study found, is that machines will continue to fail and malfunction, increasing lines at the voting booth and causing a crisis in confidence in the voting system.

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

We need to go back to paper ballots. But the device that hold the ballot must be designed to allow only a single paper ballot to be slid in at a time.
The Florida issue was cause by the crooked democrats giving democrat voters multiple ballot tickets and the democrat voters stuffing them into the punch card machines all at once. when they took the stylus and tried to punch out a vote, the hanging chads were created.
Democrat lie cheat and steal elections, because only the stupidest most corrupt people would ever vote for them.

Anonymous said...

Looks like Delmarva Downs.

Anonymous said...

Ditto with the paper ballots.