A look at the move from hand counting to computer counting ballots. Did computer counting resolve issues of fraud or errors, or did it bring about “fraud of a much more dangerous, centralized kind?” “At one point, we had tabulation errors in twenty-eight percent of the systems tested, and nobody cared.” “Should citizens delegate the job of vote-counting to technicians? Most people do not know enough about computers to be able to tell what is happening during computerized vote-counting …”

Tags: electronic voting equipment, hand-count, tabulation errors
Date: 1988-10-30
eManual Index Number: 138
eManual Section: 8
eManual Section Title: Resources
eManual SubSection Title: Newsroom
eManual page number: 197
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