Four years ago, about 2,300 voters traveled the
winding roads through this remote county to cast their
ballots before Election Day on state-of-the-art, push-button
electronic voting machines. For 678 of them, their votes were never
recorded. Vice President Al Gore won this state by 366 votes. Even if
the missing votes had gone for George W. Bush and given him New
Mexico's five electoral votes, it would not have changed the outcome of
the presidential race. But the missing votes in Rio Arriba County show
that even in the finest electronic voting systems -- New Mexico holds
itself out as a leader after a decade of experience -- serious
miscounts that could sway elections can occur if the computerized
machines are not correctly programmed. [more ]
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