Updating yesterday's ILB entry titled "Marion County Clerk raises issues about Omaha-based electronic voting machine company," is a brief story just posted on the IndyStar.com website, reporting that:
Election Systems & Software, the company that provides Marion County with its voting equipment, must conduct a system-wide audit before the May 4 primary to ensure that all of its products are legal.[More] Here is a much longer, updated Star story.The independent audit, which the company has agreed to pay for, was required today by the Marion Election Board following allegations that the Omaha-based company distributed illegal software used by Indianapolis voters last year.
[Update 4/26/04] Here is an AP story from 4/24/04 that begins:
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- A growing number of federal and state legislators are expressing doubts about the integrity of the ATM-like electronic voting machines that at least 50 million Americans will use to cast their ballots in November.Posted by Marcia Oddi at April 22, 2004 05:06 PMComputer scientists have long criticized the so-called touchscreen machines as not being much more reliable than home computers, which can crash, malfunction and fall prey to hackers and viruses.
Now, a series of failures in primaries across the nation has shaken confidence in the technology installed at thousands of precincts. Despite reassurances from the machines' makers, at least 20 states have introduced legislation requiring a paper record of every vote cast.