Thursday, January 18, 2007

Voting Computer News from Maryland and the Netherlands

The Washington Post article, "Officials Warm To Paper Trail To Verify Votes In Maryland," discusses a Maryland bill that would require paper records for voting computers. Maryland's voting computers are older, so retrofitting might not be possible.

The Dutch voting computer controversy continues. SDU, the manufacturer of the Dutch voting computers, submitted 5 different machines for testing and four of them had RF radiation leaks that made it possible to detect how the votes were cast. See the Slashdot article for links to the original source material.