You may have heard this before, but it’ll be worth telling you again. If you’re a member of the IEEE, please consider getting in touch with that organisation. Ask for closer scrutiny be paid to their voting machine working group – P1583 and SCC38. Standards committees, even in the best-run organisation, are prone to capture by either special interests or just their own ideas of efficiency. But a standard on voting machine cannot fall victim to that. It needs to be open – to be beyond doubt, and to allow dispassionate security analysis by third-parties. This isn’t the next form of C++ templates – this is the touchstone for the corruptability of our politics.
The EFF has a page with all the details. I can’t pretend to have any inside track on what’s going on here. But I do know that a little fresh air and sunshine can do nothing but help. There’s no rush to voting machines. There’s a great deal of danger in it. And a lot of very interested parties.