Voting out E-Voting Machines

ACM TechNews reports a new bill introduced in Congress this week by Senators Bill Nelson (Florida) and Sheldon Whitehouse (Rhode Island) that would ban touch screen voting in federal elections in 2012, marking a complete reversal of the path toward electronic voting machines 7 years ago.

Voters lost trust in the accuracy of the new system early on, exacerbated by the 2004 accusation that the primary touch-screen supplier (Diebold) had ties to the Republican party.

Senator Nelson told TIME "We have to start setting a goal on this. Voters have to feel confident that their ballot will count as intended."

See the full article in TIME