The rush toward computerized voting procedures in the wake of the 2000 presidential election debacle may not be such a good thing, according to an article entitled "A Vote for Less Tech at the Polls" on Wired. Among the many interesting points raised by the article is that the lack of a paper trail in computerized voting makes voting problems more difficult both to detect and to correct. There are also concerns about the fact that the companies making voting software are allowed to keep their software closed (although public officials, who may or may not be computer experts, can still "inspect" the software, whatever that might mean without access to source code). Finally, there are still fears about the inevitable bugs: if you think deciding on election on hanging chads is bad, imagine how terrible it would be for the next president to be (wrongly) chosen due to a missing "break;".
The Wired article is here.