11/16/2012

Looking Back on 2012 Election Technology

The country knew who its next president would be late in the evening of Election Day. But despite a nationwide push to electronic voting, some municipalities took days longer to finish counting their votes. Larry Norden of the Brennan Center for Justice looks at technologies and systems that worked during this year’s election, and at voting processes that fell short of the mark in counting the vote.

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Larry Norden

Larry Norden is the deputy director of the Democracy Program in the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law in New York, New York.

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About Charles Bergquist

As Science Friday’s director and senior producer, Charles Bergquist channels the chaos of a live production studio into something sounding like a radio program. Favorite topics include planetary sciences, chemistry, materials, and shiny things with blinking lights.

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