(Federal)Expert Says E-Voting Is 'Terrible' (must have paper trail)

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=513&ncid=716&e=3&u=/ap/20040505/ap_on_go_ot/electronic_voting

Expert Says E-Voting Is 'Terrible'

By HOPE YEN, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - A computer science expert criticized electronic voting systems planned for the November election as highly vulnerable and flawed, saying on Wednesday a backup paper system is the only short-term solution to avoid another disputed presidential election.

"On a spectrum of terrible to very good, we are sitting at terrible," Aviel D. Rubin, a computer science professor at Johns Hopkins University, told the U.S. Election Assistance Commission. "Not only have the vendors not implemented security safeguards that are possible, they have not even correctly implemented the ones that are easy."

Other experts (Berger of TEM Consulting) said electronic voting offers advantages over paper balloting, including increasing access to the blind and people who do not speak English. They contended that backing up electronic systems with paper ballots could be costly. <snip>

Phil Singer, a spokesman for the presidential campaign of Democrat John Kerry, said Wednesday, "After what happened in Florida in 2000, making sure that there is a reliable paper trail in place to account for every vote is just common sense."

Florida Gov. Jeb Bush told reporters no printers for making receipts have been manufactured for the electronic voting machines in his state, but he suggested he is not concerned about using the machines in November. <snip>

elections, after he's already had problems in his state. just like every other bush manoever... gloss it over with words. "i'm not worried about it." alfred e. neuman.

The slow rate of climb on BBV is killing me. If you ever wanted evidence about how our media is asleep at the wheel, BBV is it.