U.S. Bars Lab from Testing Electronic Voting

joshdick writes: "A laboratory that has tested most of the nation's electronic voting systems has been temporarily barred from approving new machines after federal officials found that it was not following its quality-control procedures and could not document that it was conducting all the required tests. The federal Election Assistance Commission made this decision last summer, but the problem was not disclosed then. In a shock to no one here on Slashdot, experts say the deficiencies of the laboratory suggest that crucial features like the vote-counting software and security against hacking may not have been thoroughly tested on many machines now in use."