Vanity Fair covers e-voting

Doug Simpson's blog picks up on 'Hack the Vote', Vanity Fair's April 2004 coverage of "partisan politics, murky accountability and lurking felons inside the e-voting systems industry and the government procurement decisions regarding it."

"As author Michael Shnayerson prefaces it, 'this is a story of good
intentions gone awry, of Congress bamboozled into thinking the
machines were ready when they weren't, of county and state election
officials softened over lavish dinners into endorsing one kind of
machine over another, with some later induced to take jobs at voting
machine companies. And like most American stories its about money
-- big money, $3.9 billion, showered on the states to buy the
machines, and buy them fast.' "

Vanity Fair content is not online, so you'll have to buy the hard copy to get the story.