GAO Finds Flaws in Electronic Voting

Truthout reports that The Government Accounting Office has issued a report citing flaws in the electronic voting systems that are being used throughout the country. Here's an excerpt:

In October 2005, the Government Accountability Office released a comprehensive analysis of the concerns raised by the increasing use of electronic voting machines.
Overall, GAO found that "significant concerns about the security and reliability of electronic voting systems" have been raised (p. 22).
GAO indicated that "some of these concerns have been realized and have caused problems with recent elections, resulting in the loss and miscount of votes" (p. 23).

It is time to mandate that every state that uses electronic voting machines also maintain a paper ballot that can be easily read to manually verify vote counts in a disputed election.

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