Tech Trouble in the Voting Booth

Jurisdictions May Not Be Ready for New Gear, Analysis Says

By Zachary A. Goldfarb

Special to The Washington Post
Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Last year, a report called "Asking the Right Questions About Electronic Voting" took a look at the issues surrounding the move by most of the country's election jurisdictions to electronic voting machines. The report's theoretical approach contrasted with the often bitter dispute about the security of the technology between activists and voting-machine vendors.

The report's authors -- a committee of National Research Council experts, including prominent computer scientists and two former governors -- then turned their attention to this year's elections. What they found, according to a council analysis released yesterday, is not reassuring: . . Continue Reading

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