The three companies that certify the nation's
voting technologies operate in secrecy, and refuse to discuss flaws in
the ATM-like machines to be used by nearly one in three voters in
November. Despite concerns over whether the so-called touchscreen
machines can be trusted, the testing companies won't say publicly if
they have encountered shoddy workmanship. They say they are committed
to secrecy in their contracts with the voting machines' makers -- even
though tax money ultimately buys or leases the machines. "I find it
grotesque that an organization charged with such a heavy responsibility
feels no obligation to explain to anyone what it is doing," Michael
Shamos, a Carnegie Mellon computer scientist and electronic voting
expert, told lawmakers in Washington, D.C. [more ]
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