Will new voting machines cure election headaches or cause them? The Help America Vote Act divided 3.1 billion dollars among all 50 states to update their voting systems with new technology. NOW takes a close look at one Michigan c...

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Will new voting machines cure election headaches or cause them? The Help America Vote Act divided 3.1 billion dollars among all 50 states to update their voting systems with new technology. NOW takes a close look at one Michigan county on Primary Day to see how the new machines are working, but also checks in on other states, including Texas, Iowa, New Mexico, and -- you guessed it -- Ohio. What we found was alarming -- computer and human error, nonexistent contingency plans, and extreme vulnerability to tampering. "We are no more certain today than we were in 2000 that we will not have an embarrassing moment and a tragic outcome in this year's election," Deforest Soaries, former Chairman of the Election Assistance Commission, told NOW. Soaries and electronic voting experts say the government's requirement to use the new machines has been implemented too quickly and without careful scrutiny, resulting in a dangerously flawed technology delivering on democracy's greatest promise.

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