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Federal Agency Condemns Paperless Voting Machines
From The Washington Post
Friday, December 1, 2006
Paperless electronic voting machines used throughout the Washington
region and much of the country "cannot be made secure," according to draft
recommendations issued this week by a federal agency that advises the U.S.
Election Assistance Commission.
The assessment by the National Institute of Standards and Technology,
one of the government's premier research centers, is the most sweeping
condemnation of such voting systems by a federal agency.
In a report
hailed by critics of electronic voting, NIST said that voting systems should
allow election officials to recount ballots independently from a voting
machine's software...
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