Electronic polling gets vote of no confidence
MORE bad news for electronic voting machines. Accused in the US of flaws that could allow one voter to cast many votes, the systems have now been branded a threat to democracy in the UK.
Trials of e-voting machines and optical scanners used to count paper ballots were held during local elections last month in England and Scotland. In a report into the trials released last week, the London-based Open Rights Group says it cannot express confidence in the results of ballots which use such systems.
Observers spotted a host of problems with e-voting machines, including insecure software, error messages and poorly designed encoded receipts. Malfunctions and software errors delayed counts using optical scanners and, in some cases, electronic counts differed widely from manual ones.
Original article posted here.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment