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Uncounted votes in NC, programming error


Today's news of e-voting malfunction underscores my previous point about complexity of voting systems. This time, about 4000 ballots went

Shifting the Heavy Lifting: from E-voting System Vendor to Pollworker


Thanks to election technology expert Noel Runyan, I can explain another reason why the U.S. election systems market is under-served by today’s

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