Despite some glitches, electronic voting machines appear to have worked reliably in last week’s US presidential election. “I expected much worse,” said Ted Selker of the Caltech-MIT Voting Technology Project. “Huge improvements have been made.”
However, some concerns were borne out. The Election Protection coalition, an umbrella group of volunteer poll monitors, reported more than 1100 voter complaints about e-voting machines. The most troubling came from Florida and Texas, where some voters reported that voting for one candidate on a touch-screen machine caused a cross to appear in another candidate’s box.
And there could be worse to come. Avi Rubin…
