Security Of Electronic Voting Is Condemned - washingtonpost.com:
"For critics of paperless electronic voting, the report is vindication. 'I think I got it right,' said Aviel Rubin, a Johns Hopkins University computer scientist who has long questioned the security and reliability of some electronic voting systems.
Linda Schade, a founder of TrueVoteMD, which has pressed for a system that provides a verifiable paper record of each vote, said, 'These strong statements from a credible institution such as NIST add yet another voice to the consensus that paper electronic voting as used in states like MD is not secure. We hope that the [Election Assistance Commission] formally adopts these improved standards.'
Even critics of paperless electronic voting have grown disenchanted with the practical problems of adding printers to electronic 'touch-screen' voting machines.
'Why are we doing this at all? is the question people are asking,' said Warren Stewart, policy director of VoteTrustUSA, a group critical of electronic voting systems. 'We have a perfectly good system -- the paper-ballot optical-scan system.'"
"For critics of paperless electronic voting, the report is vindication. 'I think I got it right,' said Aviel Rubin, a Johns Hopkins University computer scientist who has long questioned the security and reliability of some electronic voting systems.
Linda Schade, a founder of TrueVoteMD, which has pressed for a system that provides a verifiable paper record of each vote, said, 'These strong statements from a credible institution such as NIST add yet another voice to the consensus that paper electronic voting as used in states like MD is not secure. We hope that the [Election Assistance Commission] formally adopts these improved standards.'
Even critics of paperless electronic voting have grown disenchanted with the practical problems of adding printers to electronic 'touch-screen' voting machines.
'Why are we doing this at all? is the question people are asking,' said Warren Stewart, policy director of VoteTrustUSA, a group critical of electronic voting systems. 'We have a perfectly good system -- the paper-ballot optical-scan system.'"
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