Via The Register

“We could do a sample manual recount, but if it turned up a problem, we wouldn’t be able to do anything about it, which would be the quickest way to collapse voter confidence in the result,” Bennet told us.

This is an anathema to campaigners like Mercuri. “The law should always include some percentage of manual audit and there always must be a way that a problem with the check should trigger an investigation, possibly resulting in the discarding of the electronic totals.”

And she is not the only one who thinks the electronic count should be audited. Becky Hogge, executive director of the Open Rights Group, says that ORG is campaigning for the law to be changed to make a manual recount of a statistically significant sample to be mandatory in all electronically counted elections.

via The Register

The amount of criticism lobbed onto to e-voting machine makers for sub-par security prompted Wagner to liken them to Microsoft before it made security a major push. “Voting system vendors are where Microsoft was 10 years ago,” he said.

(Via Techdirt.)

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However, a New Jersey state judge has now ruled that it’s perfectly reasonable for independent inspectors to review the machines.

From the BBC:

The bill for last year’s Scottish elections is more than double the previous one, with the cost reaching almost £40m. SNP MSP Keith Brown said that in total the 2007 Holyrood and local government elections had cost £39.26m.

Mr Brown said almost £9m of the money spent on the 2007 polls had gone to DRS, the company which provided the electronic counting machines. He said the cost of elections in 2003 had been £17.15m.