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Wednesday, September 14, 2005 NAS Releases Report on Electronic Voting The National Academies of Sciences released a report on electronic voting today, "Asking the Right Questions About Electronic Voting." According to their report, in order to begin reliable e-voting, more funding, research, and public education must occur.To help election officials gauge the robustness of an e-voting system, the authoring committee posed a series of questions on matters such as computer security and voter privacy, system usability, and the life cycle of software and availability of upgrades. The answers should be made widely and easily available to officials and the public, who will need them to make sound decisions about when and if to adopt e-voting. Click here to read more. |
