US Paperless Voting Bill Advances

Posted by kdawson on Saturday July 28, 2007 @11:22AM from the will-of-the-people dept.

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:But... but... but.... by doom · 2007-07-28 13:22 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Voting Democrat in the hopes that they'd fix the system was always an act of desperation, but what else could you do? Are you seriously suggesting we'd be better off in some way if Congress were Republican right now?