U.S. Bars Lab From Testing Electronic Voting

New York Times by Christopher Drew | Jan. 4, 2007 (News Report)

A laboratory that has tested most of the nation's electronic voting systems has been temporarily barred from approving new machines after federal officials found that it was not following its quality-control procedures and could not document that it was conducting all the required tests. Full Story »

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 by Mike LaBonte - Oct. 1, 2008

Viewpoints represented fairly, but historical context is lacking. It seems like a serious omission not to mention Black Box Voting, which found this problem three years ago, and aired the problems with Ciber Labs in the HBO documentary "Hacking Democracy". Does not make clear what news event triggered this article. Not enough evidence to cover all statements. Not well organized.

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