Robert D. Atkinson, Ph.D.: Electronic Voting: If It Is Good Enough For Congress |
| Published: September 19, 2007, 11:02 pm |
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Congress is currently considering H.R. 811 "The Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act of 2007" which would require that all electronic voting machines used in federal elections produce a "voter verified paper audit trail." The hope is that paper audit trails would make our elections more secure by preventing certain types of digital attacks on voting machines. The problem is that they introduce new costs and risks but yield few benefits. The activists promoting paper audit trails argue that on existing electronic voting machines, voters do not know if their ballot was cast as intended. They argue that voters need paper audit trail so that they can verify the accuracy of their ballots. However, even with a paper audit trail voters still have no way of verifying that their ballots were included in the final vote tally. The paper ballot or electronic ballot may be lost, altered or destroyed in transit to the central polling location. Historically, most election fraud [ Full article ] |
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