The results will soon be in for New Hampshire, but election officials around the country are haunted by shades of the year 2000. Tomorrow, Arizona, Ohio and 24 other states will be watching the US Supreme Court for arguments about Indiana's voter ID law. Does it prevent fraud or disenfranchise poor and minority voters? Why do a third of all precincts nationwide use touch-screen computers, even though they're known to be unreliable? After Florida, 2000, Congress spent $3.9 billion on new voting technology. Are US elections better or worse?
Can Americans Expect Free and Fair Elections?
Credits
Guests:
- Todd Rokita - Indiana Secretary of State
- Rick Hasen - professor of law and the director of the Safeguarding Democracy Project at UCLA - @rickhasen
- Clive Thompson - Wired Magazine / New York Times Magazine - @pomeranian99
- Ion Sancho - Leon County Elections Division