With the US primary elections in full swing, the controversial issue of electronic voting machines remains. In Riverside County, California, officials are scrambling to reinstate paper-based ballots for the upcoming Feb 5 primaries:
The county has more than 3,000 of the machines in a warehouse, stacked up to the rafters, perhaps never to be used again. In a series of controversial decisions last year, California Secretary of State Debra Bowen decertified the vast majority of electronic voting machines in the state, arguing that they were vulnerable to tampering and have defects that could corrupt vote counts. [Source: LA Times]
Do you trust electronic voting machines? Why or why not, and do you think they should be used in upcoming elections?
Personally, although I am certainly a "technology guy" (spending hours at work and play on the Internet daily) I tend to adopt the "if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it" maxim with regards to electronic voting. What do you think?
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