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Article Source: Science News, Articles and Information | Scientific AmericanRepublicans during Tuesday's New Hampshire primary will use a technology recognizable to Washington and Lincoln to make their choices
Voters in the recent Iowa caucuses and Tuesday's New Hampshire primary will rely on paper ballots as they have for generations. In the very next primary on January 21, South Carolinians will vote with backlit touch-screen computers.
By Larry Greenemeier
"If you have a machine collecting and recording votes with an electronic ballot box there's no way to go back after the fact and see if the machine made a mistake, whether through malice or simple software error," says Stanford University computer science professor David Dill and founder of Verified Voting, a nonpartisan election watchdog.
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