NIST Rejects Paper Trail For E-Voting
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is famous for the Pancake Theory v2.0, which, like FEMAs Pancake Theory v1.0, explains that a few small fires made the once mighty world trade centers turn into a fine dust and a pile of pulverized remains in ten seconds (NIST claims that their Pancake Theory v2.0, written by mostly the same people who wrote the FEMA report, is not the Pancake Theory - because they use slightly different, but equally ridiculous, claims to explain that fire and damage cased the destruction of the WTC buildings..).
On December 5th NIST Technical Guidelines Development Committee met and rejected guidelines that would require a paper trail to be made by voting machines.
A federal advisory group rejected a measure yesterday that would have discouraged states from using electronic voting systems that lack an independent means of verifying their results, according to a spokeswoman for the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Members of the Technical Guidelines Development Committee, a group created by Congress to advise the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, deadlocked 6 to 6 on the proposal at a meeting held at the NIST headquarters in Gaithersburg. Eight votes are needed to pass a measure on the 15-member committee.
Federal Panel Rebuffs Guidelines That Insist on a Paper Trail, Washington Post
There is absolutely no way of making any kind of software based voting machine even remotely secure, and the whole point of using them seems to be to control the outcome of elections… A paper trail would at least help a tad, but not much - but apparently, even that would be too dangerous for the corrupt & criminal people at NIST..
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