Last week, I referenced a funny video and a couple sites that discuss the pitfalls of electronic voting. It seems to me that electronic voting technology ought to be up there with medical software and hardware–it needs to work all the time, without exception. One would hope, given the holy reverence the US people bestow on the concept of democracy, that their electronic voting machines would work on election day. Apparently some of them don’t.
Here’s an amusing and well-built Flash movie explaining the superiority of paper ballots.
DarrenBarefoot.com 
I’m a firm believer that electronic voting software should be open source and open to peer review. The Diebold machines are closed-source, meaning there could be anything going on in there.
There have been some ok reports done in Canada.
Here are links to
one in English
and
one in French
There’s a 60 Minutes segment which is good
and a 30 minute documentary segment which is also good
Electronic voting machines, particularly optical scanners, are currently in use at the municipal level in Canada, and there are efforts in place to expand this to touch-screen machines as well as to the provincial level.