Election Officials Report "downplays push for touchscreen paper receipts"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Officials envision 21st century elections
‘Vote centers,’ longer balloting could improve process

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8123391/

The report also urges state legislators to consider an “independently verifiable” record of each voter’s ballot from ATM-style touchscreen voting machines that could be electronic, video or some other form — pointedly downplaying a widespread push for paper receipts from touchscreens.

Elections administrators have taken a fair share of blame for the nation’s electoral troubles in recent years.

Many critics say local and state officials have been complacent or worse about threats to the electoral system, including worries that people seeking to manipulate elections could hack into computerized machines and rig the results.

The faults in the machines are real and can’t be ignored, said Avi Rubin, a Johns Hopkins University computer science professor. Election officials should heed the computer science community’s warnings, he said.

[Wilms]

1. .

[warbly]

2. The group that put out this report

has taken $$$ from the voting machine makers, according to the msnbc story. If that is the way msnbc reported it, the truth is probably closer to this group is wholly owned and operated by the voting machine companies. This is going to be a long tough fight.

[magellan]

3. Not buying into it.

No paper ballots, no vote. I refuse to give them anything to play with.