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Rich precincts use electronic voting for fast returns, but e-voting presents challenges too.
All eyes were on the state of Florida on Wednesday, where a ballot recount could decide the election for either George W. Bush or Al Gore by a razor-thin margin. Advertisement Much of that uncertainty was caused because only some precincts in Florida use electronic vote-counting technology, says Alex Folkes, press and campaigns officer for the U.K. Commission on Electoral Reform. It's a lot more of the richer precincts that have it. But the bigger, poorer precincts were by and large reporting later. That's why Gore started pulling back ahead.