The state eventually decided to put its money on touchscreen machines from Sequoia Voting Systems.
But they're resigned to the fact that many voting systems will be changing in the coming year.
The bill requires counties to abandon voting systems that use punch cards, mechanical levers or paper ballots.
What about the long-terms issues of funding for students and a review of voting systems for Local Government?
The companies that make the new voting systems are steaming at these accusations.
All the rest have either preferential voting systems (Australia and France) or proportional representation in one form or another.
Australia uses a mix of voting systems but keeps constituency links for Mps.
While he could not actually take apart any e-voting systems, McDermott reviewed tests and literature available on several electronic voting systems.
As David Frum wrote yesterday, American voting systems are generally a disgrace, and worse than most places in the world.
First, the system is entirely manual, making it immune to the sorts of technological attacks that make modern voting systems so risky.
Many of its leading lights actually prefer other voting systems: it will be hard to disguise that lack of enthusiasm during the referendum campaign.
Last year's public rows about voting systems, House of Lords reform, boundary changes and Leveson fuelled the idea that this government was beginning to fall apart.
Whatever recommendations Lord Jenkins makes, we shall soon have a bewildering variety of voting systems for use in different parts of the United Kingdom on different occasions.
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Representative RUSH HOLT (Democrat, New Jersey): I'm sorry, states must provide, they owe it to the voters to provide voting systems that are transparent and reliable and accessible and verifiable.
General elections, however, with their first-past-the-post voting systems, have been a very different story and the party has failed to make the breakthrough it has been hoping for.
Three weeks before California was set to vote on Governor Gray Davis' recall, a federal appeals court postponed the election because of worries about flawed punch-card voting systems.
Touch-screen voting systems, which look like automated teller machines, are easy to use, but they make recounts next to impossible--because, unlike ATMs, they produce no independent paper trail.
They welcome Britain's first-past-the-post electoral system precisely because it creates stable, democratic government invulnerable to the uncertain coalitions that "fairer" voting systems have inflicted on countries like Holland.
The casualties, and perhaps even the loss of the referendum on voting systems, are giving grassroots Liberal Democrats an appreciation of the hard realities of the position that they're in.
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Kemmerer, a professor of computer science at the University of California Santa Barbara, knows too much about New Jersey's alternative: the embattled Sequoia touchscreen voting systems used throughout the state.
Despite the passage of a Help America Vote Act last year, which was supposed to provide money and encouragement for states to modernise their voting systems, progress has been slow.
For example, the commission cites statistics showing that predominantly African-American voting precincts were more likely to use older voting systems with higher error rates than more affluent, predominantly white voting districts.
The haggling over what shape the new administration takes could be hard to stomach for a country unused to the back-room deals that democracies with proportional voting systems rely on to form governments.
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Yet technology could worsen the problem it was meant to solve, as touchscreen voting systems may contain bugs, intentional or unintentional, buried deep within their software, that will be virtually impossible to trace.
Democracy is changing before our eyes - more elected posts, more voting systems, more choice as the two-party system continues to break down and, above all other things - more unpredictable than ever.
And like Mr Davies, who thinks the Welsh are smart enough to understand how to use two different voting systems, he may yet decide to hold the parliament's elections on the same day as local-council elections.
Perfect voting systems are also impossible to devise, but America's seems peculiarly stuck in a mid-tech wasteland neither simple and old fashioned (putting your cross on a piece of paper) nor simple and high-tech (clicking on a computer).
And there was also the first report on a new way of conducting an election, being tried experimentally in the French presidential election, devised by a mathematician who hopes it may overcome many of the flaws in other voting systems.
It took less than 24 hours for Matt Blaze, a computer science professor at the University of Pennsylvania who audited voting systems for California and Ohio in 2007, to start pointing out the problems with that workaround: Unencrypted emails can be spoofed or tampered with.
While the U.S. mid-term elections are going full steam ahead with a myriad of maybe-reliable and not-so-reliable electronic voting systems in place, Quebec is pulling back from its adventures in e-voting, after the province's chief electoral officer Marcel Blanchet delivered a harsh report on the 2005 municipal elections.
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