Tuesday, April 13, 2010

New Voting Technology Raises Fears in Philippines - NYTimes.com

New Voting Technology Raises Fears in Philippines - NYTimes.com:

MANILA — It might have been an innocent enough error: the ultraviolet ink in the bar code on millions of ballots for the May elections was not dense enough to be detected by the computers programmed to authenticate them. But when officials reported their discovery last month, conspiracy theories and predictions of vote fraud ran rampant, especially after the Commission on Elections said it would deactivate this security feature and supplement the computers with manually operated ultraviolet ink readers, the kind used to check for counterfeit bank notes.

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