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Broken Ballots: Will Your Vote Count? (Center for the Study of Language and Information)
Douglas W. Jones
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Description for Broken Ballots: Will Your Vote Count? (Center for the Study of Language and Information)
Paperback. Provides an analysis of the voting climate and it approaches American elections from technological, legal, and historical perspectives. This title examines the ways Americans vote, gauging how inaccurate, unreliable, and insecure our voting systems are. Num Pages: 420 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPHF; TB; UBJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 610.
For many of us, the presidential election of 2000 was a wake-up call. The controversy following the vote count led to demands for election reform. But the new voting systems that were subsequently introduced to the market have serious security flaws, and many are confusing and difficult to use. Moreover, legislation has not kept up with the constantly evolving voting technology, leaving little to no legal recourse when votes are improperly counted. How did we come to acquire the complex technology we now depend on to count votes? Douglas W. Jones and Barbara Simons probe this question, along with public ... Read more
For many of us, the presidential election of 2000 was a wake-up call. The controversy following the vote count led to demands for election reform. But the new voting systems that were subsequently introduced to the market have serious security flaws, and many are confusing and difficult to use. Moreover, legislation has not kept up with the constantly evolving voting technology, leaving little to no legal recourse when votes are improperly counted. How did we come to acquire the complex technology we now depend on to count votes? Douglas W. Jones and Barbara Simons probe this question, along with public ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Center for the Study of Language and Inf
Condition
New
Number of Pages
420
Place of Publication
Stanford, United States
ISBN
9781575866369
SKU
V9781575866369
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About Douglas W. Jones
Douglas W. Jones is on the computer science faculty at the University of Iowa. Barbara Simons, a former president of the Association for Computing Machinery, is retired from IBM Research. For more information, please visit www.brokenballots.com.
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