As States Have Different Voting Machine Laws, Activists Prepare For Worst | Democracy, elections, and voting at Democracy Chronicles

Thanks again to Rick Hasen’s Election Law Blog, Democracy Chronicles has a fantastic graphic, actually produced by ABC News, that shows the state of voting machine technology usage in various states.  What is the impact of the technology?  What factors determine the law’s creation?  Take a look at this excerpt:

Yesterday, a group of researchers from the Verified Voting Foundation, Common Cause and the Rutgers School of Law released a report entitled COUNTING VOTES 2012: A State by State Look at Voting Technology Preparedness.

The report is thoroughly researched and painstakingly sourced; it checks in at a whopping 318 pages supported by over 2,400(!) footnotes. Not surprisingly, it has already gotten significant attention, based in part on the state by state rankings (summarized in the above map) as well as on the report’s deep skepticism about the use of Internet voting.

And the graphic:

Image courtesy of USA Today

As States Have Different Voting Machine Laws, Activists Prepare For Worst