Because Democrats are running their own primary, balloting equipment is not subject to the same scrutiny that Arizona law requires for official elections. Still, the votes will count. State and local election officials elsewhere will be watching, some skeptically. In California, an election task force recommended going slow, first offering terminals at supervised polling locations. Warren Slocum, election director in Silicon Valley's San Mateo County, does not believe Internet voting is practical until 2004.
Some critics vote no.
Curtis Gans, director of the Committee for the Study of the American Electorate in Washington, D.C., said making voting easier won't necessarily increase turnout, and it could destroy the communal gatherings at polling places. There ain't no quick fix, including this. Wash. Yet its president, Jim Adler, cautions against rushing into real elections for public office. Then the public confidence will be there. The Daily Camera.