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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: 2) by stretch611 on Tuesday June 11 2019, @05:42PM
This is what they are doing in Georgia [wabe.org].
The problem with paper trails that use bar codes is that there is no proof that what the paper prints out is an exact match of the information encoded on the barcode.
Unless there are audits to prove that the barcode always has the same information, these paper ballots are not any better than a lack of a paper trail. And regardless of any regularly scheduled audit, in any recount, an extra audit must be made to verify the veracity of barcodes.
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P