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No Action on Paperless Voting Machines

Think it will take a non auditable vote to slice NIST funding to get them to change their minds?

No Action on Paperless Voting Machines:


The Washington Post reports here that the policymaking panel at the National Institute of Standards and Technology has rejected the recommendations of its internal experts (noted here), voting against guidelines requiring electronic voting machines to have a software-independent audit trail.  According to the Post, five states use such paperless machines exclusively and 11 more use them in some locations.



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