Well, here is some welcome news in the land of voting machine silliness. NIST has announce that they will certify the security of voting machines.
“NIST will address security and wireless access,” Hancock noted. He said that focus will be in addition to the standards already in place on usability, performance, accessibility, etc.Hancock said that manufacturers of machines that don’t meet federal standards could have what he called the “ultimate sanction” placed against them.
“This includes decertification,” he said. If a manufacturer or its machines have been decertified, they cannot be used in elections in the United States, he added.
I shoud point out that Diebold machines in particular have already failed on the security front.
Tags: NIST, EAC, Voting Machines, Diebold, Voter Security
