Submitted by acohill on Mon, 04/07/2008 - 07:47
A study by a watchdog e-voting group in Maryland called SaveOurVotes found that in that state, the switch to electronic voting machines raised the cost of elections by 866%.
But wait, there's more! The counties are still paying off a $67 million dollar loan needed to purchase the machines, even though the machines were found to have serious security flaws and have had to abandoned in favor of the older and more secure optical scanning equipment--which is much less expensive.
The only good thing about this story is that the state did eventually do the right thing and revert to a more secure voting system. But the taxpayers still have to pick up the tab for a lot of bad decisions.
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