I knew it couldn’t be that easy. The TGDC rejected NIST’s proposal (which I discussed on Friday) to decertify paperless e-voting machines after they couldn’t get the 8 votes they needed to approve it:
Committee member Brit Williams, a computer scientist who has conducted certification evaluations of Georgia’s paperless electronic voting system, opposed the measure. “You are talking about basically a reinstallation of the entire voting system hardware,” he said.
Mike Masnick points out how ridiculous this is:
Why yes. Yes we are. That’s because the entire voting system hardware is totally screwed up. So, to be more specific, we’re talking about stopping an e-voting program that has serious problems and has raised plenty of legitimate questions about just how fair and accurate our elections are. That seems like a perfectly valid reason that shouldn’t be tossed aside just because it’ll be a lot of work. We also thought that democracy itself was supposed to be hard work, but apparently some of those on the Technical Guidelines Committee disagree.
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