Sunday 10 September 2017

Virginia is replacing some of its electronic voting machines over security concerns

Virginia’s State Election Board decided to replace all of its direct-voting electronic voting machines following a recommendation from the state’s Department of Elections on Friday, according to Politico (via Engadget). The devices will be replaced by machines that “produce a paper trail.”

Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) voting machines are terminals that allow voters to cast their vote with a touch screen or other electronic interface, which is tallied onto a computer. This doesn’t leave any physical trail that a vote was cast, which has lead to concerns about verifying the final result in an instance where a vote is called into question. Other machines, such as an optical scan voting system, requires voters to fill out a physical...

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from
https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/10/16284108/virginia-replacing-direct-recording-electronic-voting-machine-cybersecurity

from
http://ifeeltechinc.blogspot.com/2017/09/virginia-is-replacing-some-of-its.html

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