Unlike GEORGIA, the smart states are ditching those unauditable, easily hacked machines. Georgia needs to step up.Smith said the mid-2000s might go down as the “heyday” of electronic voting. Since then, states have failed to maintain the machines, partly due to budget shortfalls. “There is simply no money to replace them,” said Michael Shamos, a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University who has examined computerized voting systems in six states. The lack of spending on the machines is a major problem because the electronic equipment wears out quickly. Smith recalled sitting in a meeting with Missouri election officials in 2012, where they complained 25 percent of their equipment had malfunctioned in preelection testing. “You’re dealing with voting machines that are more than a decade old,” Smith said. Roughly half of the states that significantly adopted electronic voting following the cash influx have started to move toward paper. The Presidential Commission on Election Administration in January warned that the deterioration of voting machines is an “impending crisis,” but House Republicans say the issue should be left to the states.
Posted on: Sun, 02 Nov 2014 17:41:45 +0000
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