Back in March, I blogged the UK Open Rights Group's call for scrutineers to investigate irregularities in the use of electronic voting machines in Britain. Now, ORG has compiled the results of your observations and released a report. The news isn't good: evoting can't be trusted.
Becky Hogge, ORG's executive director, says:
ORG is releasing its report into the UK 3 May elections today, where both England and Scotland made heavy use of new electronic voting and counting technologies.
Our report represents observations of 25 volunteer election observers – some of whom count being national experts in computer security and usability as their day jobs.
Our conclusion is that we can have no confidence in the results declared for the ares we observed. We'll be delivering our findings to a roomful of MPs tonight in Westminster.
(Thanks, Becky!)
(Disclosure: I am proud to have co-founded the Open Rights Group, and I presently serve on its advisory board)
