OPINION: Voting touchscreens need innovation
November 27, 2007
American Enterprise Institute: One of the issues left hanging as Congress is off on recess is the Holt bill, which requires voter-verifiable paper trails on all voting machines. The bill remains mired in controversy, in part because of the opposition of sizable numbers of election officials who, after having sunk a bundle of money into touchscreen machines after the passage of the Help America Vote Act, are not inclined to change.
Norman J. Ornstein, author of the article, says "a patriotic intervention by Steve Jobs and his talented team at Apple, the geniuses who created intuitive, user-friendly, reliable and elegant successes like the iMac, the iPod and the iPhone, or by Eric Schmidt and his brilliant team at Google."