· Updated January 16, 2025 12:21 AM · 2 min read read
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In the age of breakneck technological innovation, one aspect of government the digital revolution has yet to touch: voting.
It's surprising we still use volunteer poll workers, outdated machines and manual name validation at the thousands of polling places across the country. It creates the opportunity for fraud and makes recounts and result verification extremely difficult. (See the HBO movie "Recount" for an example of how manual-voting processes can become a major disaster.)
In the age of breakneck technological innovation, one aspect of government the digital revolution has yet to touch: voting.
It's surprising we still use volunteer poll workers, outdated machines and manual name validation at the thousands of polling places across the country. It creates the opportunity for fraud and makes recounts and result verification extremely difficult. (See the HBO movie "Recount" for an example of how manual-voting processes can become a major disaster.)…