EDITORIAL ELECTION PERFECTION.IN the aftermath of the 2000 election, when hanging chads threatened to determine the fate of the American presidency, voters cried for a more reliable way to tally elections. They turned to touch-screen voting. But it turns out that touch-screen voting machines aren't the panacea Some antidote or remedy that completely solves a problem. Most so-called panaceas in this industry, if they survive at all, wind up sitting alongside and working with the products they were supposed to replace. many thought. Researchers at Rice and Johns Hopkins universities Johns Hopkins University, mainly at Baltimore, Md. Johns Hopkins in 1867 had a group of his associates incorporated as the trustees of a university and a hospital, endowing each with $3.5 million. Daniel C. have concluded that the machines being installed in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County are vulnerable to tampering tampering The adulteration of a thing. See Drug tampering. and fraud. Manufacturers dismiss the concerns, noting that researchers reviewed an older, buggier version of their software. County officials say they haven't had enough time to sort through all the claims and judge the machines' reliability for themselves. In any case, while touch-screen voting appears to be the future, it's unclear whether that future is now. They might be an idea whose time hasn't come - yet. |
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