CNET News Daily Podcast: Why e-voting's still a mess

CNET News' Declan McCullagh calls it an expensive lesson in the law of unintended consequences.

He's talking about widespread adoption of touch-screen machines in the aftermath of the 2000 election debacle. But as the U.S. heads to the polls on Tuesday, there's a lot of anxiousness over the reliability of the e-voting systems which have since been put in place. This, and other headlines of the day, in Monday's podcast.

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Today's stories:

E-voting worries linger as Election Day nears

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Circuit City to close 155 stores

Obama campaign releases tech policy video

[clamenza]

Electronic machines are an answer in search of a problem, technophilia gone wrong. Instead of adding layers and layers of security, let's go back to the basics. In the worst case it takes a few more days to count. Let the ADHD patients suffer while the rest of us get our democracy back.

[DLWilson61]

You talk about e-voting and its cost but what no one seems to want to talk about is Internet Voting. With the technology available today this is a distinct possibility. We tried it here in a Democratic Primary in I believe 2000 (maybe 2004) and it was great. Technology security has improved even more since then and computers are everywhere. For those that don't have access to a computer polls could be set up with computers for voting. As another possibility employers could be encouraged to setup some computers for their employees to vote on during their breaks. Again the TECHNOLOGY is available why aren't "the powers to be" looking more into this!