August 6, 2004, Hour One: Mars Update / Voting Technology Update

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Hour One: Mars Update / Voting Technology Update

Across the country, officials must decide if computerized voting machines are secure and open to audit. In this hour, we'll get the latest on electronic voting technology. Are electronic voting machines more vulnerable to tampering than older mechanical models?

Plus, the first published results from the rover Spirit's science mission on Mars appeared this week in the journal Science. We'll talk with one of the scientists on the Mars mission about the findings from the rovers.

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Guests:
Jim Bell
Leader, Panoramic Camera Team, NASA Mars Exploration Rover Mission
Associate Professor of Astronomy
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York

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Dan Wallach
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Rice University
Houston, Texas

David Pogue
"State of the Art" Columnist
New York Times
New York, New York

This segment produced by Karin Vergoth

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