Sentences with phrase «recording electronic voting machines»
Direct - recording electronic voting machines in particular are easy to hack; Princeton University security expert Ed Felten proved it by accessing a Diebold machine's memory card with a hotel minibar key he bought online.
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The county, which has used mechanical lever machines for generations, has chosen optical scanners over electronic touch - screen voting machines, which have been the subject of controversy because they keep no physical record of votes.
«If you have a machine collecting and recording votes with an electronic ballot box there's no way to go back after the fact and see if the machine made a mistake, whether through malice or simple software error,» says Stanford University computer science professor David Dill and founder of Verified Voting Foundation, a nonpartisan election watchdog.
The central issue is that Virginia's touchscreen equipment, known as direct - recording electronic (DRE) voting machines, did not produce a paper trail — one of the most robust if old - fashioned safeguards against potential vote tampering.