A voting debacle at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is almost enough to make us long for the days of hanging chads.
Students at the university were turning out in droves to vote on referenda regarding fee increases and election of student government members. Less than halfway through the three-day election, about 15 percent of the student body had cast ballots; for higher education, that’s an outstanding number.
However, the students were voting by computer and unfortunately learned a very valuable lesson: technology is not a panacea.