A History of Voting Machines

E-voting may already be a thing of the past, but here's what led up to it

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Posted on Oct 30, 2008 2:05 AM EDT

Direct-recording electronic (DRE) voting machines came on the scene after the Help America Vote Act helped hundreds of counties buy 50,000 machines in 2002. Problems with the machines have caused them to be discarded by many states and they may be banned in federal elections. José Cruz (Creative Commons License Attribution 2.5 Brazil)

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