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Daniel P Tokaji

Daniel Tokaji is a professor at Ohio State University’s Moritz College of Law. He maintains a daily weblog on civil rights and voting technology issues, and has been co-counsel to the American Civil Liberties Union in lawsuits challenging punch-card voting equipment in California and Ohio.

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The touchscreen future

The punch-card voting system that caused the 2000 Florida fiasco is both unreliable and severely deficient from a civil rights perspective. Daniel Tokaji explains how touchscreen voting can serve democratic principles of inclusion and fairness.