Currently, a hodge-podge of methods and devices, some invented more than a century ago, are being used.[9] The Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA) grants, among other things, money to precincts to update their voting apparatus if in the November 2000 election that apparatus used punch cards or levers. [10] Computerized touch-screen systems called DREs - Direct Recording Electronic voting machines [11] - were a popular choice of many large precincts.[12] Their main competition in… [read post]

  John Reed Stark Many of us have been following the continuing battle between Apple and the U.S. government on whether the government can required the company to unlock the iPhone of the San Bernardino terrorist, Syed Rizwan Farook, with a combination of confusion and concern. [read post]