E-Voting Report Finds Problems with Modern Elections

JonRob writes "The Open Rights Group has released a report on challenges faced by voting technology. Using the May 2007 Scottish/English elections as a testbed, researchers have collated hundreds of observations into a verdict on voting in the digital age. 'The report provides a comprehensive look at elections that used e-counting or e-voting technologies. As a result of the report's findings ORG cannot express confidence in the results for the areas we observed. This is not a declaration we take lightly but, despite having had accredited observers on location, having interviewed local authorities and having filed Freedom of Information requests, ORG is still not able to verify if votes were counted accurately and as voters intended.' The report is available online in pdf format for download."

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Re:whats wrong with paper tickets anyway?

[Vancorps]

I don't understand why they don't just make a system to do this. You the voter get a print-out and the voting office gets a print-out. Then the electronic counting can instantly tally everything. If there is a dispute then you count the paper ballots and life is grand. It's so simple it of course wouldn't work.

Of course then you need people on site which can service the printers since they will invariably break.