Counting every vote


With its hanging chads, butterfly ballots and inaccurate felon lists, the 2000 presidential election exposed major problems with America's voting procedures. Four years later, investments in new electronic voting machines, voter tracking systems and other advances spelled out in the Help America Vote Act were supposed to make things run more smoothly. But the legal battles have already begun. National Public Radio's Justice Talking hosts a debate that asks: Are we prepared to count what may be another extremely close election?

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