Wow…even NIST says electronic voting sucks.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology, in a paper to be discussed in the beginning of December, admits that direct record electronic (DRE) voting machines are “more vulnerable to undetected programming errors or malicious code.” This is because there is essentially no paper trail, and hence no way to audit the voting record.

Because of this finding, NIST suggests that DRE machines be decertified from the Voluntary Voting Systems Guidelines in favor of software independant machines (the machines that actually have a traceable record independant of their software.

Instead of trying to paraphrase anymore, I’ll just point you at the NIST paper on electronic voting machines and an article about the NIST voting machine paper. Read, and learn. Pretty interesting stuff.