Our country moved to electronic voting in public elections before the technology was ready, ... This center will develop the fundamental science necessary for secure, accessible, trustworthy and transparent voting.
People have jumped on the electronic voting bandwagon, thinking that will solve the problems, ... But these systems are largely untested.
I don't think with today's technology we can have a voting system that is fully electronic that can be trusted.
It's the concept of having a computer voting machine that bothers me, more so than the specific poor implementation that we have from Diebold.
Many of the touted advantages of electronic voting can still be achieved with paper ballots if you use a computerized ballot marking scheme.