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Getting set for the election

Mar 1, 2001

One unexpected consequence of the farce that was the recent presidential election in the United States was that it inspired two leading universities to set up a Voting Technology Project to develop a new voting machine that would "prevent a recurrence of the problem that threatened the 2000 presidential election". The project team recently issued its first report. It is unlikely that the chads and other problems that plagued the vote in Florida last year will resurface in the forthcoming general election in the UK - variously predicted to happen in early April or May. And it is equally unlikely that science will feature much in the pre-election debates. However, the UK's learned societies are already trying to raise the profile of science and engineering within Parliament, and there are a number of extremely pressing education issues that need urgent attention.

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