Federal government agency thinks electronic voting sucks

The Washington Post has an article today with the National Institute of Standards and Technology saying that electronic voting cannot be made secure. The report validates the claims many critics of the new voting system have been saying from day one:

NIST says in its report that the lack of a paper trail for each vote "is one of the main reasons behind continued questions about voting system security and diminished public confidence in elections." The report repeats the contention of the computer security community that "a single programmer could 'rig' a major election."

Hopefully the new Congress will tackle this issue right away.

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