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Can Americans Expect Free and Fair Elections?
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?
By Warren Olney • • 1 min readThe 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?
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Warren Olney
former KCRW broadcaster
Sonya Geis
Senior Managing Editor
Dan Konecky
Producer, To the Point
Karen Radziner
Managing Producer, To the Point & Which Way LA?
Todd Rokita
Indiana Secretary of State
Rick Hasen
professor of law and the director of the Safeguarding Democracy Project at UCLA
Clive Thompson
Wired Magazine / New York Times Magazine
The full episode
2 of 3As Presidential Voting Begins, Remember Florida?- 1:38Bush Packs His Bags for First Trip to Israel as President
- 7:44Can Americans Expect Free and Fair Elections?You’re reading this
- 43:50In New Hampshire, Independent Voters Hold Key to Victory