Always strive to learn something useful. --Sophocles

One of the purposes of the test was to see if they could improve voter turnout, and it didn't. A few countries like online voting, such as Estonia, but there's lots of paranoia about confidence in the integrity of the process. Understandable when you see how many commerce systems are compromised on a regular basis.

Myself, I would be ecstatic if the USA would adopt Australia's law of compulsory voting under pain of fines. If you don't vote, regardless of for whom you vote, you're giving in to the status quo.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/06/27/326221089/norway-does-a-ctrl-alt-delete-on-e-voting-experiment

They've spent over 50 million euros on them. They were trialled in 2002 and were to be rolled out in 2004, but so many problems were found that the deployment was put on hold. And now they're scrap.

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/01/13/0210257/7000-e-voting-machines-now-deemed-worthless-by-irish-government

The machines were developed by two state-controlled companies and outsiders were not allowed to attack them to test the security. An anonymous source provided Mr. Prasad a machine and he found ways to compromise it, and went on TV and talked about it. Police raided his home, he would not reveal the source that gave him the machine, so they arrested him on possession of stolen property.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/08/researcher-arrested-in-india

A study done to see how much e-voting cost the state of Delaware. Not a pretty story. The sad thing is that the counties scrapped their optical scan equipment when they bought into Diebold, and now they have to re-buy all that equipment. I think the only electronic voting equipment that my county has, aside from the optical scan tabulators, is a device for helping handicapped people vote, but it marks a standard ballot that can then be visually inspected before it's fed into the tabulator.

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/04/the-cost-of-e-v.html

EDIT: And Slashdot picked up the story: http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/06/1427241. Some pretty good observations.