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Paper and the Case for Going Low-Tech in the Voting Booth

Published: Oct. 23, 2018, 4:31 p.m.

In September 2017, barely two months before Virginians went to the polls to pick a new governor, the state\u2019s board of elections convened an emergency session. The crisis at hand? Touchscreen voting machines. They\u2019d been bought back in the early aughts, when districts across the country, desperate to avoid a repeat of the 2000 \u201changing chads\u201d fiasco, decided to go digital. But the new machines were a nightmare, prone to crashes and\u2014worse\u2014hacking.