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Voting machine maker ES&S has said it “will no longer sell” paperless voting machines as the primary device for casting ballots in a jurisdiction.
ES&S chief executive Tom Burt confirmed the news in an op-ed.
TechCrunch understands the decision was made around the time that four senior Democratic lawmakers demanded to know why ES&S, and two other major voting machine makers, were still selling decade-old machines known to contain security flaws.
Burt’s op-ed said voting machines “must have physical paper records of votes” to prevent mistakes or tampering that could lead to improperly cast votes. Sen. Ron Wyden introduced a bill a year ago that would mandate voter-verified paper ballots for all election machines.
The chief executive also called on Congress to pass legislation mandating a stronger election machine testing program.
Burt’s remarks are a sharp turnaround from the company’s position just a year ago, in which the election systems maker drew ire from the security community for denouncing vulnerabilities found by hackers at the annual Defcon conference.
Source: https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/09/voting-machine-maker-election-security/
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 11 2019, @03:00PM (1 child)
A system with paper receipts is supposed to have 2 copies, one for the officials and one for the voters precisely so that this kind of thing doesn't happen.
But, really, the correct solution is to not use voting machines, instead use paper ballots with optical scanners. We've been using those for years here and there haven't been any problems. You can even go watch the votes being counted if you want to. It turns out that after all the GOP accusations of elections fraud that there weren't any changes even after rebuilding the building that the votes are counted to allow people to watch from any side of the room they want to.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday June 12 2019, @02:19AM
And votes are never lost... absentee ballots are never "misplaced" and uncounted. And the voters themselves turn out in great numbers to ensure that their votes are properly represented in recounts... sure.
there were slightly more cases of GOP voting fraud than non-GOP voting fraud.
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