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WI Bill Would Require E-Voting Paper Trail, Source

Posted by timothy on from the small-step-for-cheeseheads dept.

AdamBLang writes "Three Wisconsin legislators announced today that they began circulating a memo for cosponsors to a bill that would require electronic voting machines to produce a paper ballot. Additionally, the new bill includes a provision that the source code must be publicly accessible. After the November 2004 elections, there were numerous reports of problems with the new paperless touch voting screens. Problems include machines subtracting or adding votes, freezing up, shutting down and skipping past races."

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  1. Yes! by MarkusQ · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's hard to overstate the importance of this--no matter what your stance on any of the multitude of wedge issues, you should be behind this. Only people who somehow expect to gain from rigged elections could rationally oppose it.

    So let's keep a list of who objects, shall we?

    --MarkusQ