How Voting Works
A limited series podcast about the mechanics and technology of how we vote, mostly in the United States.
How Voting Works
Episode 3 – Electronic Voting Machines and the Paper Ballot
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Ben Adida
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Season 1
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Episode 3
For a few years in the early 2000s, the US deployed fully electronic voting machines, also known as DREs, fairly broadly. Today, DREs are mostly gone, replaced by voter-verifiable paper ballots.
Sources:
- https://www.wired.com/2004/11/computer-loses-4500-votes/
- https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/magazine/election-security-crisis-midterms.html
- https://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/24/us/computer-voting-is-open-to-easy-fraud-experts-say.html
- https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/01/us/high-tech-voting-system-is-banned-in-california.html
- https://verifiedvoting.org
How Voting Works is a limited series podcast made by VotingWorks, the only non-profit maker of voting machines in the US.
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