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Rebuttal: David L. Dill.

The author reflects on voting machines used in U.S. elections, stating that paperless electronic voting machines should be banned from use in elections. The article is a rebuttal to another article found elsewhere in the issue on the topic of direct-recording electronic voting machines (DREs). Topic...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 51; no. 10; pp. 32 - 34
Main Authors: Dill, David L., Castro, Daniel
Format: Editorial
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Oct2008
Subjects:
Electronic voting
Optical scanners
Election equipment
Evaluation
Ballots
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:The author reflects on voting machines used in U.S. elections, stating that paperless electronic voting machines should be banned from use in elections. The article is a rebuttal to another article found elsewhere in the issue on the topic of direct-recording electronic voting machines (DREs). Topics include voter-marked ballots, precinct-count optical scan technology (PCOS), and the independent verification of vote tallies. Also discussed is the impossibility of trustworthy elections with DREs.