Wisconsin Shines Sun on Electronic Voting
Saturday January 7, 2006
Update: 8 January
On Wednesday, Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle signed into a law a bill that reportedly required that "the coding for the software that is used to operate the system on election day and to tally the votes cast is publicly accessible and may be used to independently verify the accuracy and reliability of the operating and tallying procedures to be employed at any election." According to Brad Friedman, however, voting activists rejoiced too soon; the open software clause was removed from the bill on 3 November and the General Assembly on 10 November. The state requires a paper trail, along with 24 others. In Connecticut, the state announced it is not meeting federal guidelines for electronic voting, which went into effect 1 January 2006, because "no company was found to meet Connecticut's requirements, which include that the machines create a certified paper trail and display the entire Election Day ballot on one screen." (tip)
On Wednesday, Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle signed into a law a bill that reportedly required that "the coding for the software that is used to operate the system on election day and to tally the votes cast is publicly accessible and may be used to independently verify the accuracy and reliability of the operating and tallying procedures to be employed at any election." According to Brad Friedman, however, voting activists rejoiced too soon; the open software clause was removed from the bill on 3 November and the General Assembly on 10 November. The state requires a paper trail, along with 24 others. In Connecticut, the state announced it is not meeting federal guidelines for electronic voting, which went into effect 1 January 2006, because "no company was found to meet Connecticut's requirements, which include that the machines create a certified paper trail and display the entire Election Day ballot on one screen." (tip)
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