[E-voting] Nevada holds Statewide Electronic elections,
with paper ballots
Margaret McGaley
Margaret.McGaley at redbrick.dcu.ie
Sun Sep 12 22:02:03 IST 2004
Could someone possibly compile a list of countries (and states in the US) with
what kind of e-voting they use and what kind of VVAT (if any)?
Margaret
On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 12:15:46PM +0100, Aengus Lawlor wrote:
> >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
>
>
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