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MSNBC: The Five Main Voting Technologies
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by Karen Hatter | October 31, 2008 at 12:01 pm
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A link at the MSNBC website provides visitors the opportunity to click on each of the five voting methods in use during this election cycle:
All are highlighted at the site to do a walk through of each of the processes.
From the article:
Is your vote really being counted? Election experts estimate as many as two-thirds of registered voters are using a ballot method different from the one used in the last presidential election - - and history shows that's when voting errors are most likely.
Click here for Voting Tech: Under the Hood.
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at 14:13 on October 31st, 2008
Karen Hatter, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 17:48 on November 1st, 2008
Karen Hatter, It all looks straight foward to me, can not understand the fuss, though the lever machine could in my mind cause problems.
The main problem is people tend to skip the information on a method being used, thus mistakes, the ratio of human error is said to be 5% to 12% error ratio. So what ever method used there will always be human error involved.
I like what Msnbc has done but unfortunatly only the people used to computers and surfing the internet will get the benifit. Does the federal governent send out information on these systems to the public by post?