Finally (well, at least for today), there's new research out from The Brookings Institution that claims worries over the security of electronic-voting technology are overblown and that points out paper ballots present serious problems of their own, Governing.com reports:

"Recent history is clear," said Paul S. Herrnson, a University of Maryland political scientist and the study's principal investigator. "The election problem most likely to tilt a close race is not security but the inability of voters to cast their ballots the way they intended."