Why America is using glitchy electronic voting machines

It's been 18 years and several thousand lifetimes since the contested Bush-Gore presidential elections of 2000. Yet "hanging chads" are still haunting us — but not in the way you might think.

Since states began introducing electronic voting machines and other technology in the voting process, digitizing various aspects of voting has been a boon for democracy in many ways. Online voter registration has supercharged get-out-the-vote efforts. ID scanning at check-ins helps reduce lines. And, of course, ballots submitted digitally allow for near instantaneous returns.