Election devices criticized, banned in other states
The Associated Press
GREENVILLE --S.C. election officials say they still plan to use touch-screen voting machines despite the fact that other states have banned the use of similar systems made by the same company.
Last month, top election officials in Ohio and Colorado declared that Election Systems and Software's iVotronic is unfit for elections.
The ban was prompted by a study done for the state of Ohio in which researchers found that electronic voting systems could be corrupted with magnets or with some handheld electronic devices, such as Treos.
"We've reviewed the report and we remain confident in the security and accuracy of South Carolina's voting system," state Election Commission spokesman Chris Whitmire said.
But the S.C. League of Women Voters has renewed its call for the state to record votes on paper as well as electronically to allow for accuracy checks, though there have been no documented cases of actual election tampering.
"It's very difficult to get evidence that somebody tampered with the vote if you have no way of knowing what the vote was before they tampered," said Eleanor Hare, a computer scientist who participated in a study of the machines by the S.C. League of Women Voters.
The machines have been used statewide since 2006.
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Any electronic voting machines without an easily compared and confirmable paper record is not secure and should not be used. Period.
I come from a former 'hacker' lifestyle and know how easy all things electronic can be exploited with absolute ease and with no one ever knowing (and the person exploiting honestly doesn't have to know much about the systems).
Electronic voting machines are dangerous and shouldn't even be thought about by anyone who cares about fairness and the opinions of the people.
-=The Prynce
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