Wash. state announces safeguards for electronic voting

Washington Secretary of State Sam Reed has announced a series of measures to improve trust in electronic voting machines, including the requirement that by 2006 each produce a paper trail that will allow voters to verify their ballots. "The most fundamental quality to a democracy is using a voting system people can trust," Reed told a news conference Wednesday. "To gain that kind of trust and confidence, people have to be able to verify their vote." [more]

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