Reply #18: Reliability of e-voting in doubt

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Reliability of e-voting in doubt

Expert estimates 10 percent of machines could fail

By Ian Hoffman, STAFF WRITER

SACRAMENTO —

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The era of approving tools of democracy on the cheap is coming to an end, and judging by talk at a national gathering of voting experts here last week, few will be sorry to see it go.

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But if voting systems testing is as broken as scientists and voting advocates say, there is wide-ranging debate about what the future should look like. For the next year or two, the way that voting systems reach U.S. counties and voters isn't likely to change.

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Given typical delays in approval and purchase of new voting systems, that means the next Congress and president will be chosen in 2006 and 2008 on voting equipment tested and approved under the current national system or something very like it.

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