How Voting Works

Episode 3 – Electronic Voting Machines and the Paper Ballot


Listen Later


For a few years in the early 2000s, the US deployed fully electronic voting machines, also known as DREs, fairly broadly. Today, DREs are mostly gone, replaced by voter-verifiable paper ballots.

Sources:

  • https://www.wired.com/2004/11/computer-loses-4500-votes/ 
  • https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/magazine/election-security-crisis-midterms.html 
  • https://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/24/us/computer-voting-is-open-to-easy-fraud-experts-say.html 
  • https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/01/us/high-tech-voting-system-is-banned-in-california.html
  • https://verifiedvoting.org


How Voting Works is a limited series podcast made by VotingWorks, the only non-profit maker of voting machines in the US.

Questions and comments are always welcome. Email us at [email protected]

All episodes licensed under a Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution License. Use as you please, just give us credit by linking back to https://how.voting.works

...more
View all episodesView all episodes
Download on the App Store

How Voting WorksBy Ben Adida