Voting Machines

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The echo chamber echoes back
After I blamed blogosphere lefties for leading me astray, the readers let me have it.
Was the election stolen?
The system is clearly broken. But there is no evidence that Bush won because of voter fraud.
The last lone inventor
Bill Rouverol's Votomatic machine was blamed for Florida's 2000 election fiasco. But the 86-year-old tinker is back, with an innovation that will ban "hanging chads" forever.
Voting machine showdown
A leading maker of computer election equipment defends itself in court against charges that it overreached itself in trying to stifle critics.
Will the election be hacked?
A Salon special report reveals how new voting machines could result in a rigged presidential race -- and we'd never know.
Psst? Wanna get a look at some vote-counting software?
A computer programmer discovers a widely used computerized voting program on a publicly accessible Internet server.
Bad grades for a voting-machine exam
Riverside County, Calif., invited citizens to observe a test of its computerized voting systems. One participant was not impressed.
Another case of electronic vote-tampering?
Representatives of the computer vote-counting industry are unfairly dominating the standard-setting process, say critics.
An open invitation to election fraud
Not only is the country's leading touch-screen voting system so badly designed that votes can be easily changed, but its manufacturer is run by a die-hard GOP donor who vowed to deliver his state for Bush next year.
Florida all over again?
Partisan infighting, a crucial election, dubious voting machines -- now it's California, and the Rehnquist gang may decide this one, too.
Hacking democracy
Computerized vote-counting machines are sweeping the country. But they can be hacked -- and right now there's no way to be sure they haven't been.
Voting into the void
New touch-screen voting machines may look spiffy, but some experts say they can't be trusted.
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