Today’s Los Angeles Times features Ex-Officials Now Behind New Voting Machines*Those who led the state’s ballot-count reforms now work for the firms making the equipment. The story follows Saturday’s New York Times report on touch-screen seller Diebold’s business and controversy.
Given the amount of money that HAVA and other sources provide for revamping voting equipment, I suppose I should not have been surprised by the extent to which conflicts have arisen over the transitions to new voting technologies.