Broken Ballots: Will Your Votes Count?

摘要

In Broken Ballots, two respected computer scientists and election-reform activists-Doug Jones of the University of Iowa and Barbara Simons, formerly of IBM Research and a past president of the Association for Computing Machinery-join forces to recount the history of American voting technologies, from Samuel Jollie's glass ballot box of 1856 to today's computerized systems. They take their inspiration from long-ignored election administration expert Joseph Harris, who asked, in 1934, why the United States had thus far failed to develop an election system capable of producing clear, unambiguous results. In spite of more than seventy-five years of technological progress since Harris's day, much the same can be said right now.