Election Time USA: Thoughts on the Building Madness

But what’s so interesting is that the steps taken to avoid another hanging chad debacle may have further undermined Americans’ confidence in our voting system. Jon Stokes, writing on Ars Technica, suggests that thousands of American communities, spurred by fears of broken elections or statewide mandates to improve voting systems, purchased untested “alpha” versions of election machines that are vulnerable to breakage, hacking and several other flavors of failure.