Avi Rubin, a well-known and vocal critic of electronic voting wrote up his experiences serving as an election judge in Maryland yesterday. His account is a good read and it sounds like a positive experience both for him and the folks he worked with. Over the next several hours, we all were busy checking in …
Seems more and more states are putting e-voting on hold. Wired is reporting that Ohio will wait until after 2004 to roll out its e-voting machines.
Jason was right in predicting that elections in Fairfax County were handed over to an electronic system that failed because officials didn’t understand it well enough. Turns out that yesterday’s voting was marred by glitches: The new machines, meant to simplify voting, made the tallying of the votes more problematic. More than half of precinct …
Jason Lefkowitz wrote about this two weeks ago and detailed how Fairfax County was not concerned with security flaws in system it purchased. Election officials pretty much admitted that they spent $3.5 million on a system they didn’t understand. Meanwhile, one vendor, Diebold is trying to suppress information about flaws in its system which could …