Hi-Tech Voting Machines 'Threaten' US Polls: "US voters will go to the polls in November using electronic voting machines which cannot be verified, a computer scientist warned yesterday.
David Dill, of Stanford University, told the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Seattle, that 1,600 technologists and 53 elected officials had joined his crusade for a 'paper trail' so that electronic voting machines could be checked.
In an election for a seat in the Florida house of representatives last month, touch-screen machines recorded 127 blank ballots. The race was won by 12 votes. No recount was possible because there was nothing to recount.
In an election in Indiana last year, an electronic system recorded more than 144,000 votes in an election with fewer than 19,000 registered voters. "
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