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Electronic voting saves money? Think again...

12/21/06
Despite the fact that electronic voting has been shown time and again that it is unreliable and easily subverted (aka election fraud), states everywhere are embracing it (are election officials holding diebold stock?). They are holding that because counting is automatic, it will increase accuracy, decrease the time to count the ballots and as a result, save money. Well, the money savings aspect is now being drawn into question. It turns out that it costs hundreds of thousands of dollars just to store between elections. In response, many Utah cities are returning to the paper ballot. Thank god.