I should point out that most of the people who ought to know about the issue, have been screaming bloody murder about electronic voting machines for some time now. Politicians and the general public just haven’t been listening. This issue is surfacing now, not because it wasn’t an issue before, but because having a specific election to point to makes it easier to get people to listen. It also helps that the election wasn’t an important one (it was a Democratic primary for a safe Republican seat), and the candidates involved don’t have the resources to influence the discussion like they normally would.
I should point out that most of the people who ought to know about the issue, have been screaming bloody murder about electronic voting machines for some time now. Politicians and the general public just haven’t been listening. This issue is surfacing now, not because it wasn’t an issue before, but because having a specific election to point to makes it easier to get people to listen. It also helps that the election wasn’t an important one (it was a Democratic primary for a safe Republican seat), and the candidates involved don’t have the resources to influence the discussion like they normally would.