In some good news, New Jersey’s acting governor has signed into law a requirement that all voting machines produce a verifiable paper record of the voter’s intentions before the 2008 elections.
The EFF has more information. They are filing suit to have the law enforced before the 2006 elections, saying 2008 is too long to wait.
N. Mallory
Jul 16, 2005
I’m not sure how this will help as long as there are still black box back doors into the system. I mean even I can write a program to print what someone enters all the while storing whatever I want in the db despite what the person entered.
Michael Hampton
Jul 16, 2005
Yes! That is exactly the problem. The paper trail is all well and good, but the computer can still disagree with it, and unless something goes horribly wrong, or someone asks for a recount, it won’t be caught.