In the Electionline.org weekly newsletter (which should be posted here later today), Sean Greene has a fascinating story about comments made by Dennis Vadura, former AccuPoll CEO. Among the statements he makes is the following: “I think that [voting systems] vendors outright misrepresent the robustness, stability, and security of their systems. You just have to look at the litany of problems and it points at one thing, bad fundamental design, and not enough checks and balances. I also wonder why the other vendors were so adamant in fighting a VVPAT system requirement. They spent much more in fighting it than in implementing it.”
If you are wondering how I got this story before it was posted to the web, it is because I signed up for the e-mail blast of the newsletter, which comes a day before the information gets posted to the Electionline web page.