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posted by martyb on Tuesday June 11 2019, @09:38AM   Printer-friendly
from the sudden-outbreak-of-common-sense dept.

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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/


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  • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Tuesday June 11 2019, @11:45PM

    by Freeman (732) on Tuesday June 11 2019, @11:45PM (#854437) Journal

    Voting Machines:
    https://www.xkcd.com/463/ [xkcd.com]

    Voting Software:
    https://xkcd.com/2030/ [xkcd.com]

    Pencil and Paper is good.

    No teachers were hurt in the production of this comic:
    https://www.xkcd.com/499/ [xkcd.com]

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    Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
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