Computers may not be the ultimate voting tools, despite their utility for other tasks, say experts in computer security and voting. "All voting systems, including the new ones being proposed -- the Internet and direct entry balloting, they all have flaws," . . .
Computers may not be the ultimate voting tools, despite their utility for other tasks, say experts in computer security and voting. "All voting systems, including the new ones being proposed -- the Internet and direct entry balloting, they all have flaws," said Rebecca T. Mercuri, a computer science professor at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania who consults for the Democratic Recount Committee in Florida. "The question is, which flaws do you trade off for?"

Computer voting companies and their proponents point to a system in Brazil that they call near flawless, some trial runs of similar systems in the United States, and a new $14 million system in Riverside County, California, as proof that computers can improve voting.

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