According to the Associated Press, Georgia's introduction of electronic voting reduced uncounted votes for both predominantly Black and white precincts, but the reduction was more dramatic for Blacks than whites...
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The racial gap in uncounted votes was 3.55% in 2000; the gap is now down to 0.48%. To put it differently, the proportion of uncounted votes in the predominantly black precincts was 2.1 times larger than that in the predominantly white precincts in 2000; the former is only 1.4 times larger than the latter in 2004.
While this might appear to be a positive point for electronic voting, in the end, if the electronic machinery is hacked or fixed to deliver a particular vote, it really doesn't matter that blacks are now getting their votes counted, now does it?
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