Posted By:
Jim VBBarry,
There was a good article about this in USA Today (last week, sometime.)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-10-28-votingequipment_N.htm
The use of the old mechanical machines has dropped off dramatically in the last few years, but like everything else, change is expensive and not always well managed. A lot of money has been wasted.