[E-voting] Nevada holds Statewide Electronic elections, with paper ballots

[Aengus Lawlor]

>From the current issue of the Risks Digest (which should be online later
today).
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/23.52.html

Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2004 07:36:55 -0700
From: "NewsScan" <newsscan at newsscan.com>
Subject: E-voting in Nevada

Nevada voters have become the first in the nation to cast ballots in a
statewide election using computers that produced printed paper records
of
electronic ballots. "Knock on wood, so far things have been working
flawlessly," said Secretary of State Dean Heller. Nevada's $9.3 million
voting system includes more than 2,600 computers and printers deployed
in
every county. The system, developed by California-based Sequoia Voting
Systems, aims to address concerns that paperless touchscreen votes
cannot be
properly audited or recounted. "From what I've seen, voters seem to
enjoy
the experience," says DeForest B. Soaries Jr., chairman of the U.S.
Election
Assistance Commission. "There hasn't been frustration or confusion."
[AP/*USA Today*, 8 Sep 2004; NewsScan Daily, 8 Sep 2004]
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/evoting/2004-09-08-nv-evote-system_x.htm

($9.3m for 2,600 machines - they even cost less than ours did!)

Aengus