No Consensus on Voting Machines
No Consensus on Voting Machines
A California inquiry into requiring touch-screen voting machines to print ballots generates odd alliances. Many computer scientists favor printouts, but the ACLU, voting machine makers and disabled voters are opposed. By Joanna Glasner.
By Joanna Glasner
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