Analysis
This story gives little information about the various problems and complaints raised by electronic voting machines. More information about Professor Edward Fleton can be found here, including information about electronic voting security limitations. For more information on electronic machines and election fraud, go here or here. For more information about the problems with 2004 Ohio election, go here.
Transcript
Newsreader Congress may not vote in time to require new regulations this November for electronic voting machines in use around the United States. The government spent 3 billion dollars on the electronic devices that are intended to ease the voting process for the disabled and make election results more secure, but computer experts and voting officials told the congressional panel today that the technology is far from fool-proof.
Keith Cunningham (Fmr. Ohio Elections Official) Over and over and over we encountered tapes that were missing that were in some way compromised.
Professor Edward Felten (Center for Information Technology) Tampering with an old fashion ballot box can effect a few hundred votes at most. But injecting a virus into a single computerized voting machine can potentially effect an entire election.
Newsreader Lawmakers are considering a bill which would require all electronic voting machines to be verifiable and have a corresponding paper trail. Its not certain Congress will approve the measure in time to have any effect on a November vote.
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