Slashdot recounts information provided by an anonymous reader regarding problems with electronic voting stemming from a lack of mandated standardization.

To wit, LINUXINSIDER quotes Jamie McKown, Wiggins professor of government and polity at the College of the Atlantic:

"People debate the merits of e-voting for a variety of reasons, including suspicion of new technologies and a general distrust of politics. Reports on e-voting security often de-contextualize the history of voter fraud in this country, as if boxes were somehow assumed to be better. You constantly hear calls for paper trails, and open and free inspection of voting machine source code. But it's a very thorny issue and one that has a lot of facets,' McKown told LinuxInsider."

The article goes on in suggesting that once the decision about a universal voting platform is made, the way is clear for open-source software to address concerns over accuracy.

See full article in LINUXINSIDER.