Santa Clara County faces key decision on electronic ballots
“The future of electronic voting may be rewritten this week in Santa Clara County, where county leaders are weighing warnings that the touch-screen voting machines they want to buy are more prone to error and fraud than the systems they would replace.”
“Sequoia’s systems don’t produce paper ballots that voters can verify, and supervisors didn’t ask for such a device in their bid proposal. Vendors and election officials say paper ballots aren’t needed because the machines have internal safeguards, are certified by federal and state governments and tested repeatedly before and after elections.”
Ack! Read the research! Read my rant! Just stop immediately and don’t do anything yet!
“``We still believe they’re secure,’’ Assistant County Executive Peter Kutras said Friday. ``There are not any issues that should cause concern in terms of voter confidence.’’ "
Good Grief.
This is also good press for the petition that David Dill at Stanford began. Hopefully they will listen.