Beware the new electronic voting machines
You may have heard that New York State is being forced to replace its lever voting machines with electronic voting machines. That’s the bad news. The good news is that the New York State analysts in charge of the new machines are taking their job seriously:
A laboratory that has tested most of the nation’s electronic voting systems has been temporarily barred from approving new machines after federal officials found that it was not following its quality-control procedures and could not document that it was conducting all the required tests.
The company, Ciber Inc. of Greenwood Village, Colo., has also come under fire from analysts hired by New York State over its plans to test new voting machines for the state. New York could eventually spend $200 million to replace its aging lever devices.
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Nice find. That’s a *little* reassuring, at least.
It’ll be a sad day if we replace those lever machines with a Diebold machine.