N.J. judge says state's voting machings safe, reliable

[no_hypocrisy]

New Jersey's 11,000 electronic voting machines are "safe, accurate and reliable," but a panel of experts — some with computer training — must decide whether to keep or scrap the most popular model, a Superior Court judge said in a ruling issued Monday.

Judge Linda R. Feinberg also ordered election officials to tighten security around the equipment, including running criminal background checks on vendors and others who work with the machines; guard units delivered early to polling places; and train workers to detect tampering.

"She did make some very good findings," Penny Venetis, an attorney for the plaintiffs and co-director of the Rutgers Constitutional Litigation Clinic, said of Feinberg. "Unfortunately, I think this opinion should have gone further."


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http://www.northjersey.com/news/crime_courts/83319417_Voting_machines__safe__accurate_but__changes_ordered.html

I'm still using paper ballots . . .

[Towlie]

1. So where can we download the source code to examine it?

Voting machines are in virtually the same situation as encryption software. Nobody who knows anything about cryptography and computer security would dream of trusting a program to be secure unless the source code was freely available to everyone to be downloaded and examined for security flaws.

[T Wolf]

2. Rather than "criminal background checks" they should just look for puke connections to the

companies that own our electoral process.