Dec

17

EFF, Verified Voting Push for Post-Election Tests on E-voting Machines

San Francisco - On November 2, voting machines in many states—both "red" and "blue"—had problems that led thousands of citizens to call a national voter protection hotline. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the Verified Voting Foundation (VVF) were at the other end of the line, and the two organizations are very concerned about what they heard. In several states, voters who chose one presidential candidate were presented with confirmation screens that listed another candidate’s name. In others, machines crashed and were rebooted repeatedly, but nobody knows whether votes were lost. EFF and VVF have responded by sending letters to voting officials in the eight counties that experienced the worst technical problems, urging the officials to allow independent testing of the machines. Such tests could reveal what went wrong and whether anyone tampered with the devices. Prominent technical experts including Rice University computer science professor Dan Wallach and security guru Bruce Schneier have agreed to help conduct these tests…

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