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In reply to the discussion: It is entirely possible votes were tampered with!" [View all]summer_in_TX
(2,685 posts)County, TX elections administrator to design a secure voting machine that meets the needs for a secure, auditable vote with a paper trail. It is the Secure, Transparent, Auditable, and Reliable Voting System, or STAR-Vote. It has an encrypted, paper record that matches the electronic record and allows voters to verify the vote they cast.
They've tried to get an existing company to make it, but none of them would because it uses open source software, meaning that their profit model on subsequent updates wouldn't work for them.
They're still hoping to find a benefactor or other way to get them made, but with a design that's done and tested it could theoretically be rolled out in time for the 2020 elections. Most of the current generation machines are aging out and are due to be replaced. Plus the standards for voting machins are about to be updated and this machine apparently meets the proposed standards.
From KUT, Austin's NPR affiliate:
http://kut.org/post/experts-say-electronic-voting-machines-arent-secure-so-travis-county-designing-its-own