The Dangers of Electronic Voting
We have had electronic voting in Travis County, Texas, since 2002 via the Hart InterCivic "eSlate" machines. (Hart is a local Austin firm.) The machines had no paper trail. In 2006 a coalition of citizens led by the NAACP filed suit. That complaint was dismissed by the state supreme court in 2011.
"The true goal should be prevention of attack, not detection after the fact,” DeBeauvoir said. "Our systems—and our democracy—are strengthened when we embrace public scrutiny and open discussion," said Travis County Clerk Dana Debeauvoir in testimony before the ELECTIONS ADVISORY COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. Public Hearing May 5, 2004. In other words, she (well, not "she" personally) was going to make sure that nothing went wrong and was not going to check afterward to see if anything did.
With no paper ballot, no audit trail existed, of course. The machines could record anything or nothing and no one would know.
Now, we have a new system coming. Two changes are in the plans. First, the ballots will be printed - and then the completed printed ballot will be scanned into a counter. The paper ballot will be an audit.
The second change is that each polling station will report via wireless. In the past NO wireless devices were allowed in the polling station. In the past, machines were hand carried to a central location for "counting" (downloading). Now, the ballot machines will broadcast tallies to central locations that accept wireless inputs.
Travis County Forges New Territory in Voting Machines
https://www.texastribune.org/2014/07/09/...
DeBeauvoir Details Election Security Plan
http://www.traviscountyclerk.org/eclerk/...
TESTIMONY BEFORE ELECTIONS ADVISORY COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. Public Hearing May 5, 2004
http://www.traviscountyclerk.org/eclerk/...
About the eSlate Voting System
http://www.traviscountyclerk.org/eclerk/...
"The true goal should be prevention of attack, not detection after the fact,” DeBeauvoir said. "Our systems—and our democracy—are strengthened when we embrace public scrutiny and open discussion," said Travis County Clerk Dana Debeauvoir in testimony before the ELECTIONS ADVISORY COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. Public Hearing May 5, 2004. In other words, she (well, not "she" personally) was going to make sure that nothing went wrong and was not going to check afterward to see if anything did.
With no paper ballot, no audit trail existed, of course. The machines could record anything or nothing and no one would know.
Now, we have a new system coming. Two changes are in the plans. First, the ballots will be printed - and then the completed printed ballot will be scanned into a counter. The paper ballot will be an audit.
The second change is that each polling station will report via wireless. In the past NO wireless devices were allowed in the polling station. In the past, machines were hand carried to a central location for "counting" (downloading). Now, the ballot machines will broadcast tallies to central locations that accept wireless inputs.
Travis County Forges New Territory in Voting Machines
https://www.texastribune.org/2014/07/09/...
DeBeauvoir Details Election Security Plan
http://www.traviscountyclerk.org/eclerk/...
TESTIMONY BEFORE ELECTIONS ADVISORY COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. Public Hearing May 5, 2004
http://www.traviscountyclerk.org/eclerk/...
About the eSlate Voting System
http://www.traviscountyclerk.org/eclerk/...
