Electronic voting

A cautionary tale from Wired Magazine - August 6th, 2007:

Ridiculous UK E-Voting Trial Ends in Disaster
Back in May, England ran an e-voting trial at local council elections in Stratford-upon-Avon and Warwick: Shakespeare Country. The continued faith in electronic ballot counting took another hit in a farce worthy of the Bard himself.

To begin, the contracts were not awarded until a scant three months before the election. Because of this, the contractors, Software AG and Dominion Voting had no time for testing. In fact, live tests weren't carried out until the day before the election in Stratford, and election day itself in Warwick. Even then, only 280 and 400 test votes were run through the machines, respectively.

The biggest problem was the scanning of papers. The off the shelf scanners could not be fed folded papers, troublesome with postal ballots. Operators found that they could scan the same paper multiple times and the machine didn't care, it just counted them without flagging duplicates.

The article concludes with this:

That politicians still think electronic voting is a good idea is baffling. Slower, less secure, more expensive, and harder to use.

It seems very little has changed in the intervening 13 years. It seems that Dominion Voting is still not secure.