Seven years after the hanging chad fiasco Senators to abandon '08 e-voting paper trail mandate "Democratic senators on Wednesday made another push for banning electronic voting machines that lack paper trails, but they've backed away from doing so in time for next year's presidential election."
"Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the chief sponsor of a contentious bill called the Ballot Integrity Act that proposes such changes, said she fears requiring all states to employ so-called voter-verified paper records in their systems, with some primaries only six months away, "could be an invitation to chaos." Earlier this year, she called for enacting such changes by 2008."
Update: PC World reports Diebold E-Voting Flaws Could Compromise Elections. "Optical scan voting devices slated to be used presidential primary elections in Florida next year are significantly flawed and could compromise the outcome of the contest, according to a report released Tuesday by Secretary of State Kurt Browning." Diebold machines are used in other states and there have been known problems with them for a long time. It takes Florida to report them?
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