Many former advocates of VVPAT, including John Gideon, exec dir of VotersUnite, now favor requiring that all votes be recorded on paper ballots.NIST is recommending that the 2007 version of the Voluntary Voting Systems Guidelines (VVSG) decertify (DRE) machines. "DREs are unacceptable as voting devices and ... the addition of a VVPAT on a DRE is only a placebo to make some voters feel more comfortable." |
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Joan Brunwasser is a co-founder of Citizens for Election Reform (CER) which since 2005 existed for the sole purpose of raising the public awareness of the critical need for election reform. Our goal: to restore fair, accurate, transparent, secure elections where votes are cast in private and counted in public. Because the problems with electronic (computerized) voting systems include a lack of (more...)