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E-VOTE.(The Talk of the Town)
Publication: The New Yorker Publication Date: 22-JAN-07 Author: Widdicombe, Lizzie
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COPYRIGHT 2007 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc.
Nothing excites an electoral conspiracy theorist like electronic voting machines. There's the latest foul-up in Florida (eighteen thousand votes lost in the Thirteenth District in November), or the Princeton professor--you can watch him on YouTube--who in less than a minute hacks into a voting machine and plants software redirecting votes from candidate "George Washington" to "Benedict Arnold." In 2002, the federal government mandated that states upgrade their voting systems. New York is among the last in the country to do so--the slowness, depending on whom you ask, derives either from caution or from incompetence. In the meantime, the city's Board of Elections has called in an unlikely authority: the voting public.
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