ELECTRONIC voting has been hit by a fresh blow. An entire ballot may need to be rerun after a software upgrade to touch-screen machines wiped key data.
Last Thursday California superior court justice Winifred Smith issued a “tentative” ruling voiding the results of a 2004 vote in Alameda county over restrictions on medical marijuana dispensaries. She called for the measure to appear on the ballot in the county’s next general election. “This case could set a precedent,” says e-voting expert Avi Rubin of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.
The measure initially lost by just 191 votes, prompting a recount.…
