12.05.2006

Fewer than half of voters are getting screwed: Good enough, says panel.

GAITHERSBURG, Md. -- A federal advisory panel on Monday rejected a recommendation that states use only voting machines that produced results that could be independently verified....

The failed resolution, proposed by Ronald Rivest, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology computer scientist and panel member, closely mirrored a report released last week warning that paperless electronic voting machines are vulnerable to errors and fraud and cannot be made secure....

More than half of all voters used machines with paper records during the 2006 elections.

Joseph Stalin said "He who votes decides nothing; he who counts the votes decides everything."

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