At Friday lunch, we were talking about the issues with electronic voting. As it turns out, the New York Times just published an article (to appear in tomorrow's Times Magazine) that discusses the problems pretty well:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/magazine/06Vote-t.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
It gives a pretty good overview of the problems, for those of you not in computers who may not be familiar with how screwed up the situation is.
