Not Again! How Our Voting System Is Ripe For Theft and Meltdown in 2012

The Republican war on voters is only the start of really big problems voters face in the 2012 presidential election.

“We need good technology and we need good laws,” said Barbara Simons. The retired IBM computer scientist and nationally known expert on voting technology is co-author of a new book, Broken Ballots: Will Your Vote Count? which details America’s history of voting machinery and election administration, and concludes that many states have neither good technology nor good vote count rules.

“We are running elections in this country as if we are ... Full Story »

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by Dwight Rousu - Jul. 12, 2012

touch screens and scanners do not read every vote accurately. Central tabulators can lose votes. And hackers can easily breach the security features.

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