… The current nationwide attention to election security has led to a renewed interest in voting technologies and to two topics in particular: (1) the use of computers to cast and count ballots and (2) the age of the equipment and the need to replace machines that were bought in the aftermath of the 2000 election.
Beginning in 2012 I started asking respondents to public opinion surveys what they think about different voting technologies. Not surprisingly, opinions among the public about voting machines have changed in recent years, particularly as the drumbeat against DREs has grown louder, and as the security of voting technologies has become more salient. CONT.
Charles Stewart III (MIT), Election Updates