November Surprise?

Electronic Voting and the 2004 Presidential Election

Brian Rosmaita
Department of Computer Science
Hamilton College
http://www.cs.hamilton.edu

October 11, 2004

The Setup

• Some states have deployed electronic voting machines.
• These machines are being paid for in large part by federal money.
• The election outcome reported by these machines has national implications.
• So, we all have a stake in whether these machines work well or not.
• What are the odds these machines will give us a November Surprise?
• If they don't, what does this mean?

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