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NIST Condemns Paperless Electronic Voting

Posted by Zonk on from the they're-not-the-only-ones dept.

quizzicus writes "Paperless electronic voting machines 'cannot be made secure' [pdf] according to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). In the most sweeping condemnation of voting machines issued by any federal agency, NIST echoes what critics have been saying all along, that due to the lack of verifiability, 'a single programmer could rig a major election.' Rather than adding printers, though, NIST endorses the hand-marked optical-scan system as the most reliable."

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  1. Re:because without a verifiable paper trail... by erpbridge · · Score: 0, Redundant

    you can never be certain when duplicate events can occur