Left In Lowell

Via Blue Mass Group’s sharonmg, this article at Computerworld goes over a lot of information about the pros and cons of e-voting (like, hacking vote counts and no paper trail) all in one place. sharonmg is one of the online editors of the magazine. Some tasty excerpts:

One-third of us will use voting machines that have never before served in a general election. Legal challenges to paperless DRE (direct-recording electronic) voting technologies are proliferating across the country, and as computer scientists demonstrated earlier this year, hacking challenges to many of these machines can bear fruit even faster than demands for recounts.

Election-reform watchdog groups haven’t kept pace with the massive funding influx and official support that the move to electronic voting has experienced. (Nor, critics say, have they enjoyed the close relationships that exist between many of the e-voting suppliers and government officials in charge of framing the rules for the acquisition of such machines.)

This article goes state-by-state, as well as into the players, problems and issues. There’s tons of information to sift through here. Is Galvin finally going to do his homework, or do we have to take to the streets to save the integrity of our elections in Massachusetts?