Can Chad finally go back to being an African nation?
This year, there was no mention of the hanging or pregnant variety of chad, no prolonged investigation into what went wrong, and lawyers for both sides got all wound up with nowhere to vent their litigation. But the lack of a hotly contested outcome in 2004 may be a double-edged sword for electronic voting. (Special Report: America Votes 2004) All eyes were on e-voting this time around as nearly a third of U.S. voters used some type of high-tech device. The machines were designed to eliminate the problems associated with paper, but critics have been vocal in saying too many states jumped the gun to get them in place. They worried about the lack of a voter-verified paper trail (only Nevada offers that to all voters in the state), weak software and the same digital disasters that come with computers. (Nevada improves odds with e-vote, Nevada election results) So how did they perform? The short, albeit unsatisfying answer is that it’s still too early to know for certain. But at least one
This year, there was no mention of the hanging or pregnant variety of chad, no prolonged investigation into what went wrong, and lawyers for both sides got all wound up with nowhere to vent their litigation. But the lack of a hotly contested outcome in 2004 may be a double-edged sword for electronic voting. (Special Report: America Votes 2004) All eyes were on e-voting this time around as nearly a third of U.S. voters used some type of high-tech device. The machines were designed to eliminate the problems associated with paper, but critics have been vocal in saying too many states jumped the gun to get them in place. They worried about the lack of a voter-verified paper trail (only Nevada offers that to all voters in the state), weak software and the same digital disasters that come with computers. (Nevada improves odds with e-vote, Nevada election results) So how did they perform? The short, albeit unsatisfying answer is that it’s still too early to know for certain. But at least one