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Virgina uses 18 voting systems from 11 companies (virginia.gov)
1 point by Retric on Nov 4, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



Harder to consistently secure and administer, but harder for any one party to steal the whole vote. We hackers consistently preach against monoculture, so I suppose it's time to step up with some applause.


It looks like the rain is causing the most problems with optical scanner systems. So, I guess having many options on election day is probably a useful approach.




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