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More Critics Call for Paper-Trail Systems to Back Up Electronic Voting.

The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)

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Byline: Brian C. Mooney,

Jun. 21--Florida's infamous hanging chads and butterfly ballots in the 2000 presidential election prompted a land rush to electronic voting across the country. But five months before the 2004 election, a chorus of computer scientists and activists see potential for electoral meltdown in the growing trend toward touch-screen technology.

Despite reports of malfunctions in jurisdictions around the country, the use of "direct recording electronic" voting machines has been growing dramatically. In this year's presidential election, 50 million registered voters, 29 percent of the total, will be able to cast their ballots on ATM-like ...

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