"Officials: Recount law is obsolete"

See this report from California, which begins: "Elections officials across California are waging 11th-hour opposition to using paper records for verifying electronic ballots, partly arguing that the printouts — as well as the electronic voting machines themselves — are vulnerable to fraudulent programming. Writing to the governor recently, the California Association of Clerks and Elections Officials suggested that fully computerized, touchscreen voting machines, known as Direct Electronic Recording devices or DREs, should not be checked by recounts, the method used for all other voting technologies in the state."

Posted by Rick Hasen at September 27, 2005 09:22 AM