SacBee Op-Ed: "Counting on security"

Mon Nov 06 2006 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

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Deirdre Mulligan (PI on NSF ACCURATE grant), Aaron Burstein, David Snyder and I wrote this piece for Sunday's Sacramento Bee. -Joe

http://www.sacbee.com/110/story/71365.html

Counting on security

The transition to electronic voting without tough standards for security, reliability and accessibility is a serious mistake.

By Deirdre K. Mulligan - Special to the Bee
Published 12:00 am PST Sunday, November 5, 2006

The election system voters will encounter Tuesday is, in many ways, untested. Voters will be facing new technologies and policies in the first national election since Congress approved the Help America Vote Act in 2002 to reform the system. And there are troubling signs that the transition will be anything but smooth.

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