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Science Friday > Archives > 2003 > September
> September 26, 2003:
Hour One: Voting Machine Technology / Green Chemistry News
This week, the courts set the California state recall election back
on schedule, despite arguments from the ACLU that the punch-card voting
machines used in some California counties are prone to malfunction.
Though the California election will proceed using the current election
equipment, including some punch-card machines, are electronic voting
machines the best way to go for future votes? What would it take to
create a means of voting that is simultaneously secure, trustworthy,
accurate, and efficient to tabulate? Some experts say that electronic
voting could raise more concerns that it solves. We'll find out more.
Plus, green chemistry ...using environmentally-friendly chemicals
to clean up contamination. Work presented earlier this month at the
meeting of the American Chemical Society in New York looks at the
use of one such 'green' agent, an oxidation catalyst called Fe-TAML,
for cleaning up a variety of messes. We'll find out more. Call in
with your questions and comments at 1-800-989-8255 (2-3 Eastern),
and share your opinions online in our Listeners' Lounge (registration required).
Guests:
Douglas Jones
Member, Iowa Election Reform Task Force
Chair, Iowa Board of Examiners for Voting Machines and Electronic
Voting Systems
Associate Professor, Computer Science
University of Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa
Guy Duncan
Vice President, Voter Registration Services and Systems
Election Systems and Software
Raleigh, North Carolina
Terry Collins
Director, Institute
for Green Oxidation Chemistry
Thomas Lord Professor of Chemistry
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Books/Articles Discussed:
Related Links:
Caltech-MIT
Voting Technology Project
Voting
Technology
Wired
News: No Consensus on Voting Machines
University
researchers criticize electronic voting machines as security risk
Black
Box Voting : Ballot - Tampering in the 21st Century
Electronic
Voting
Green
Chemistry links
Fe-TAML(R)
activators developed at Carnegie Mellon remove recalcitrant sulfur
from automotive fuels
Fe-TAML(R)
activators developed at Carnegie Mellon break down toxic pesticides
Fe-TAML(R)
activators developed at Carnegie Mellon help cleanup paper and wood
pulp manufacturing
This segment produced by Karin Vergoth
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