County officials learn the hard way, electronic voting?s day has arrived

The day after the presidential election, Austin, Texas-based Hart InterCivic issued a press release praising how its new eSlate Electronic Voting System has been used successfully by customers in nine states.

One of the customers was Harris County, Texas, the nation?s third-largest county with 1.9 million registered voters.

Days after the company?s boast, voters in Boulder County, including myself, were still waiting for our election results.

Re-elected President George Bush already was shuffling his new cabinet, beaming Democrats had elected a new speaker in the Colorado House, and strategists were enamored with the GOP?s ability to woo evangelical Christians.

All this while Boulder…