Good news - SERVE abandoned

[ciphergoth]

Thanks to webcowgirl for the heads-up. The SERVE electronic voting system I discussed earlier has been canned by the DoD [NYTimes, registration required]. Rah! Good things sometimes do happen. Now all we need is for Maryland to abandon Diebold and we'll really be getting somewhere.

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[narnee.livejournal.com]

More states than Maryland are using Diebold. Washington, Ohio, Texas, California, and Florida, and Georgia used them for an election in 2002 (with surprising results), among others.

The best fix for the mess, IMO, is The Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act of 2003 (H.R.2239/S.1980) (http://www.verifiedvoting.org/fair_elections.asp).

See Black Box Voting (http://www.blackboxvoting.com/) and vertifiedvoting.org (http://www.vertifiedvoting.org/) for more info.