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Funding for Transition to Paper Ballots at Risk in Maryland

By Verified Voting

Faced with a dire fiscal situation, Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley may soon eliminate funding for verifiable paper ballot voting systems in the 2010 elections. After a successful five year struggle to pass legislation requiring voter marjked paper ballots in Maryland, the Governor may over ride the will of the legislature by eliminating the funding... »

Paper Ballots, Photocopiers, and Security

By Bo Lipari

This article is cross-posted at Bo Lipari’s Blog. When I heard that New York City had found that a photocopy of a ballot could be successfully scanned by both of the two systems being used in New York State, my first thought was that this is Sun-Rises-in-the-East news. It didn’t surprise me, and the... »