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The machine age: electronic voting could put an end to paper ballots. Is that a good thing?

Publication: Texas Monthly
Publication Date: 01-MAR-04
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: The machine age: electronic voting could put an end to paper ballots. Is that a good thing?(FAQ)

Article Excerpt
Can everyone in Texas vote electronically? No. When Texans go to the polls for the March 9 primary, only 12 of 254 counties will be using what are known as direct recording electronic voting machines (DREs). But that number is expected to increase soon. After the Florida fiasco in 2000--remember hanging chads?--Congress passed the Help America Vote Act in 2002, committing $3.9 billion to help states eliminate punch-card ballots. Many Texas counties will use that money to switch to DREs because they're paperless (votes are recorded on a computer), which means no laborious and potentially inaccurate hand counting....

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