Exclusive: E-voting puts vote accuracy at risk in four key states

[babsbunny]

http://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-e-voting-puts-vote-accuracy-risk-four-183125308.html

In four battleground states, glitches in electronic-voting machines could produce erroneous tallies that would be difficult to detect and potentially impossible to correct, a Monitor analysis finds.
By Mark Clayton | Christian Science Monitor – 1 hr 59 mins ago

Touch-screen electronic voting machines in at least four states pose a risk to the integrity of the 2012 presidential election, according to a Monitor analysis.

In four key battleground states – Pennsylvania, Virginia, Florida, and Colorado – glitches in e-voting machines could produce incorrect or incomplete tallies that would be difficult to detect and all but impossible to correct because the machines have no paper record for officials to go back and check.

[sadbear]

1. I think this may be THE story on November 6 and 7 (and maybe long after that.)

[Angry Dragon]

2. If you can not verify that my vote was counted as cast then

the government needs to own the software

[libdem4life]

3. So do Republicans make all of the voting machine purchase order decisions?

If not, our Democrat brethren have some 'splainin' to do, as well. That is beyond stupidity working it's way into the realm of egregious simpletons.

Bring on the European Blue UN election monitors...and send in the IT folks as ours seem to be incapable. Perhaps we can get a UN grant for real voting machines. That is the only way we may at least be slowed down in our application for Bananna Republic membership.

[marions ghost]

4. You might want to look at what happened in Maryland

...they are trashing all of their "new" e-voting machines...

[libdem4life]

13. That is good news.

[RC]

5. And even if they did have internal paper records, there'd still be no way to know if it were

correct or not. Their software is proprietary, we have to take their word for it. The word of Republicans that are on the record for Republican wins over Democrats.
This is an outrage in public elections for public offices in our government.

[SickOfTheOnePct]

7. That's why

I believe that electronic touch screen machines should produce a paper receipt that has your choices on it. You could verify the receipt, then deposit it in a ballot box as you leave the polling place.

The efficiency of an electronic quick count with the ability to manually hand count should there be concerns about accuracy.

[JackN415]

8. Excellent suggestion

[gkhouston]

10. Actually, a random sample of the paper ballots should be hand-counted, in any case. n/t

[SickOfTheOnePct]

11. If you mean a random sample of precincts, I would agree

But unless an entire precinct is done, it would be meaningless.

[gkhouston]

12. Agreed. n/t

[Agony]

6. We need Venezuela's voting system...

[ThomThom]

9. then there is no way these machines should/could be used

any doubt at all and people will go to jail over this
pull them fast pull them now
better start printing paper ballots fast

[libdem4life]

14. Do you really think so? I'm hopeful, but not very confident.