US Paperless Voting Bill Advances

A couple of weeks back we discussed the effort to require voting paper trails in US federal elections. Now WhiteBoxVoter writes: "Democrats and Republicans in the US House of Representatives agreed today on a compromise that will push through a bill banning paperless voting machines and requiring a voter-verified paper record for every vote in the country, after government sanctioned hackers showed how they could break into all three of the top voting systems used in California." The NYTimes reported on Thursday that even if it passes the House, voting-machine reform that would take effect before the 2008 elections may die in the Senate.

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Re:Very wierd that the richest country in

[RAMMS EIN]

Countries don't come up with voting systems, people do. And people in the US have come up with some very good systems indeed.

Unfortunately, support for better voting systems has been lackluster at best in the circles where the decisions about them actually get made.

Once again, it's not a matter of technical know-how, but of political will.