The Beginning of the End of E-Voting?

It looks like Maryland and Virginia have had it with electronic voting machines. After the election on Tuesday, the two states are phasing out the machines, which have suffered from security vulnerabilities and miscounted votes, and returning to paper ballots. Maryland will go back to paper as soon as 2010 and turn its back on its $65 million investment in the machines. Virginia will slowly move back to paper ballots as the machines wear out.

As reported by The Washington Post:

The trend reflects a national movement away from electronic voting machines. About a third of all voters will use them Tuesday, down from a peak of almost 40 percent in 2006, according to Election Data Services, a Manassas-based consulting firm specializing in election administration. Every jurisdiction that has changed election systems since 2006 has gone to paper ballots read by optical scan machines, said Kimball Brace, the firm's president. And for the first time in the country's history, fewer jurisdictions will be using electronic machines than in the previous election, he said.

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