eimarra | lone election post (tongue-in-cheek)

I've noticed that Nevada's early voting has gotten a lot of national coverage in the past couple of weeks. As someone who grew up there, I wanted to mention it. For those who haven't been following along, Nevada placed electronic voting booths in places people normally visited -- malls, grocery stores, libraries -- and let people vote outside their local precinct at wherever was convenient for them. It has been phenomenally successful in terms of turnout, and a lot of pundits have been saying other states should look into following the model.

I'd like to sound a note of caution here, though.

After all, Nevada's infrastructure is built on the ability to place electronic machines of chance in any public building at a moment's notice. Other states just don't have the background to do that.

On the other hand, if IGT were supplying voting machines rather than Diebold doing so, there would probably be a lot fewer hackers getting into the systems. And they wouldn't even have to guarantee a 97% payback!