As reported in <Badger Blues via Daily Kos, and Slashdot the law requires that:
"If a municipality uses an electronic voting systm for voting at any election, the municpal clerk shall provide any person, upon request, at the expense of the municipality, the coding for the software that the municipality uses to operate the system and tally the votes cast.
This is a great step toward making voting technology serve the public rather than voting system vendors.
Wisconsin law already required voting machines to produce paper ballots that can be used in a recount.
UPDATE: Unfortunately, the report was based on an old version of the bill. The version of the bill that passed requires an non-disclosure agreement be signed for code review. So much for transparency and public scrutiny.
Also, the "paper trail" language doesn't require that the paper ballot be viewed by the voter before it is cast, so it's toothless also.
Posted by alevin at January 5, 2006 08:53 AM | TrackBack