81.   Similar suits are pending in other states, Tokaji said, although many are moving on their own to update obsolete voting systems.

82.   So Cronin favors providing grants to the states to update voting systems.

83.   She said that factors like illiteracy and lack of familiarity with the voting system could have caused the voting problems.

84.   So he put three engineers in the nine-person company to work applying their encryption to an Internet voting system.

85.   So what kind of a voting system do the philosophers favor?

86.   Some states, notably California, have for years been trying to improve their voting systems.

87.   Specifically, she said, the state needs to standardize its patchwork of voting systems so that citizens in counties that use punch card systems are not disenfranchised.

88.   Thanks to cable TV and the Internet, millions of Americans have unprecedented access to the entrails of the voting system.

89.   The bells and whistles of voting systems vary widely across the country, according to Election Data Services, a consulting firm for both parties.

90.   The complexity of the new voting system itself may discourage citizens from voting at all.