Submission + - NIST Rejects Paper Trail
emil10001 writes: "The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) rejected a proposal to suggest that electronic voting have a paper trail. From the Post article: "The proposal was based on draft recommendations developed by scientists at NIST, who said in a document released last week that voting machines that do not produce a paper record of each vote 'cannot be made secure.'" Committee member Brit Williams, who opposed the measure, said, "You are talking about basically a reinstallation of the entire voting system hardware." The proposal failed to obtain the 8 of 15 votes needed to pass. "Five states — Delaware, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland and South Carolina — use machines without a paper record exclusively. Eleven states and the District either use them in some jurisdictions or allow voters to chose whether to use them or some other voting system.""
