NIST Condemns Paperless Electronic Voting

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."

Don't blame me...

[Anonymous Coward]

I voted for Kodos.

because without a verifiable paper trail...

[holden caufield]

you can never be certain when duplicate events can occur.

I Knew It!

[Quantam]

NIST echoes what critics have been saying all along, that due to the lack of verifiability, 'a single programmer could rig a major election.'

I knew there had to be a reason the Democrats won congress! Hopefully they'll have this fixed by 2008!

Re:because without a verifiable paper trail...

[holden caufield]

you can never be certain when duplicate events can occur.

Re:Hand-marked is the way to go

[CheeseTroll]

What's an (R) or (D) ballot? If I vote for a republican governor, but a democratic senator, does it meet halfway and become a (K) ballot?