Marketplace Tech

Voting precincts are steadily moving away from paperless machines


Listen Later

“DRE” is the acronym in election-speak. It stands for direct-recording electronic voting machines … the kind that record votes directly into a computer’s memory, often with no paper trail. In an effort to boost security and ensure more reliable counting of ballots across the country, officials have been replacing them with voting machines that produce a paper backup. And there has been noticeable progress on this front. According to a recent report from the nonprofit organization Verified Voting and the Brennan Center for Justice, in 2016 about 22% of registered voters were in jurisdictions that used DREs. By 2020, that figure had fallen to 9% and could drop considerably further this year. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke with Megan Maier, co-author of the Verified Voting report, about replacing what’s left of these outdated machines and bringing that number down to zero.

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

Marketplace TechBy Marketplace

  • 4.4
  • 4.4
  • 4.4
  • 4.4
  • 4.4

4.4

73 ratings


More shows like Marketplace Tech

View all
The NPR Politics Podcast by NPR

The NPR Politics Podcast

25,784 Listeners

Marketplace by Marketplace

Marketplace

8,765 Listeners

On the Media by WNYC Studios

On the Media

9,192 Listeners

PBS News Hour - Brooks and Capehart by PBS News

PBS News Hour - Brooks and Capehart

1,219 Listeners

The World by PRX

The World

938 Listeners

Fareed Zakaria GPS by CNN Podcasts

Fareed Zakaria GPS

3,399 Listeners

Marketplace Morning Report by Marketplace

Marketplace Morning Report

926 Listeners

Marketplace All-in-One by Marketplace

Marketplace All-in-One

1,389 Listeners

Marketplace Tech by Marketplace

Marketplace Tech

1,275 Listeners

Make Me Smart by Marketplace

Make Me Smart

5,490 Listeners

The Indicator from Planet Money by NPR

The Indicator from Planet Money

9,536 Listeners

Composers Datebook by American Public Media

Composers Datebook

10 Listeners

Piano Puzzler by American Public Media

Piano Puzzler

35 Listeners

Consider This from NPR by NPR

Consider This from NPR

6,396 Listeners

How We Survive by Marketplace

How We Survive

1,378 Listeners

Trump's Terms by NPR

Trump's Terms

399 Listeners

This Old House Radio Hour by American Public Media

This Old House Radio Hour

96 Listeners