Voting machines and accountability…
[A bunch of links to information referenced in the article below are included at its end. Unauditable voting systems are a growing scandal nationwide. -Thomas]
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/03/03/BU122767.DTL&type=tech
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Scientists question electronic voting
Henry Norr
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But a funny thing happened on the way to the paperless future: Some of high technology’s best and brightest — computer scientists who know better than anyone else what computers can do but also how they can be misused — came out against Santa Clara County’s plan. They were joined by Kim Alexander, founder and president of the respected, nonpartisan California Voter Foundation, and other concerned citizens.
Their objection, as David Dill, professor of computer science at Stanford and leader of the campaign, puts it on his Web site: The machines the county planned to buy, like those other jurisdictions around the country are installing, “pose an unacceptable risk that errors or deliberate election- rigging will go undetected, since they do not provide a way for the voters to verify independently that the machine correctly records and counts the votes they have cast.” (See the box on E3 for Dill’s Web site and others sites discussed below.)
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