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"It's amazing how far the reputation of electronic voting [5] has fallen," writes Center for Media and Democracy researcher Diane Farsetta. On November 9, 2000, one company bragged, "If Florida had used an e-voting system, we'd know the winner already." But over the past few years, as "expert critiques of and troubling incidents with e-voting systems multiplied to the point of attracting major media attention," the multi-industry group Information Technology Association of America [6] "urged e-voting companies to unite under a public relations banner [7]." A longer version of this article ran in the Center's quarterly journal, PR Watch. Subscribe today [8] and be among the first to read future exposes!
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[1] http://dev.prwatch.org/users/6/diane-farsetta
[2] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/public-relations/crisis-management
[3] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/democracy
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[5] http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Voting_machine
[6] http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Information_Technology_Association_Of_America
[7] http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=E-voting_PR
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[9] http://alternet.org/election04/19423/