Electronic voting machines were supposed to vanquish unreliable counts. They did not -- but David Lindley finds that other technologies present their own problems.
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See Editorial, page 1149 David Lindley is a freelance science writer based in Alexandria, Virginia.
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Lindley, D. US election: Ghosts in the machine. Nature 455, 1171–1174 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/4551171a
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