To date, I don’t choose to publish my own political views. But no matter whether you are liberal, conservative or one of the various mixtures of the two, you will agree that making sure that every vote counts is integral to a successful democracy. And making sure that every vote counts in many ways starts with counting the votes, a job we have entrusted to a select number of voting system manufacturers. Computerized voting systems have not traditionally lived up to how well other information technology innovations have been able to impact traditionally non-computerized environments. The Help America Vote Act, passed in 2002 was supposed to help propel the initiative…