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Published online 29 October 2008 | Nature 455, 1171-1174 (2008) | doi:10.1038/4551171a
News Feature
US election: Ghosts in the machine
Electronic voting machines were supposed to vanquish unreliable counts. They did not -- but David Lindley finds that other technologies present their own problems.
In the US mid-term election of 7 November 2006, the balloting in Sarasota County, Florida, was decidedly high-tech. Voters recorded their choices on electronic touch-screen machines that had been installed following the debacle of Florida's 2000 presidential race between Republican George W.
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