Voting Without Quality Assurance or Auditability
Ed Felten in Freedom to Tinker: Flaky Voting Technology cites
The
Washington Post: Fairfax Judge Orders Logs Of Voting Machines Inspected regarding yet another specific example of a buggy or fraudulent voting machine in action, and concludes:
You could hardly construct a better textbook illustration of the importance of having a voter-verifiable paper trail. The paper trail would have helped voters notice the disappearance of their votes, and it would have provided a reliable record to consult in a later recount. As it is, we’ll never know who really won the election.
