28 March 2003

Paperless Voting Machines Under Fire

By Rachel Konrad
The Associated Press
Tuesday, February 25, 2003; 7:55 PM


At least one in 10 voters nationwide cast ballots in the last presidential election on electronic voting machines, whose popularity is growing as counties replace the antiquated systems blamed for Florida's hanging chad debacle.

But in Silicon Valley, computer scientists want to halt the trend - at least until voting machines are redesigned to produce a paper record of every vote. They say paper backups offer more protection against hackers - or political hacks - who might tamper with electronic results.

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