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Election Technology and the Voting Experience in 2008

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Author(s)
Stewart III, Charles H.
Date Issued
March 25, 2009
Publisher
Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project
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VTP Working Paper Series;71
Abstract
The 2000 election brought the issue of voting machine performance to national attention. According to the Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project (2001), up to 2 million votes were lost in 2000 owing to problems associated with faulty voting machines and confusing ballots. Stewart (2006) estimated that one million votes were “recovered” in the 2004 presidential election because of the Help America Vote Act’s (HAVA) requirement that punch card ballots and lever machines be replaced by more modern optically scanned ballots and direct recording electronic (DRE) voting machines.
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