Friday, December 1, 2006

NIST condemns paperless voting "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." However a 2006 HBO documentary segment on YouTube Diebold Hack Test shows hand-marked optical-scan system having problems.  In essence Diebold's memory card allows negative votes.  Compare the results on the scanner to the inputs. 7:21:21 PM    comment []

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