Fri Aug 10, 2007 at 06:50:23 PM EDT
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The new Attorney General sure has been busy since taking office. Today AG Anne Milgram refused to certify the systems that will provide a paper backup for electronic voting machines until the 33 flaws that have been found are fixed and the systems can be retested..."We are fully committed to protecting the integrity of our elections in New Jersey," said Milgram. "We want to ensure a paper trail that is accurate, reliable and can be audited." More from the story on what prompted her decision...Milgram's refusal to certify the machines used in 20 of the state's 21 counties comes less than a month after computer scientists at the New Jersey Institute of Technology found flaws with printers in all three voting machine types it tested.
Problems ranged from printers that ran out of paper too quickly to printer cables that were deemed prone to tampering. There were also flaws with the machines' ability to alert poll workers to malfunctions, according to a report on the testing.
The state commissioned NJIT's Center for Information Technology in Newark to test the machines after voters' rights groups challenged the integrity of the machines in court. My favorite part of the story is where the voting machine manufacturers talk about how researchers "misunderstood" the state guidelines and that the problems could be easilly fixed. I'm sorry, the researchers didn't research the guidlines before doing all their work? I'm glad the AG is paying attention. It's only our votes at stake. |
| Jason Springer :: AG wants flaws fixed before certifying Voting Machines |
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