Secure Open Electronic Voting Systems are Available!
by kathy@truthisbetter.org Last updated 2004-06-21

From ACM Tech News A coalition of volunteer programmers and professors known as the Open Voting Consortium has devised an electronic voting scheme that is "technically sound, accurate, secure, inexpensive, uniform and open."

In addition to providing a voter-verified paper ballot that many critics of touch-screen e-voting machines are clamoring for, the system is cheaper than current e-voting systems on the market because it uses open-source software and commodity hardware. A user employs an ordinary PC screen to view a ballot and makes his selections through a touch-screen, mouse, or keyboard interface; the software then transforms the choices into a bar code and prints out a copy of the ballot. The bar code lets the computerized counting system rapidly ascertain election results and enables voters to verify that their selections were recorded correctly

Here are articles describing the new electronic voting system:

AutoMark™ Voter Assist Terminal provides voters with disabilities the ability to mark an optical scan paper ballot.