Ensure reliable & trustworthy election technologies
Electronic voting machines are insecure, unreliable, and prone to a variety of problems that undermine trust in our elections process. Optical scanners and other technologies have some problems as well.
The CTO can create a clear roadmap to get reliable, trustworthy, verifiable voting technology into every precinct in America by the time of the 2010 elections.
Additionally, the CTO should employ information designers to create a national standard for ballot designs so that all citizens are ensured the right to a ballot that is clear, easy to use, and reliable.
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DougB
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The concerns about voting system reliability in this last election reflect an appropriate lack of confidence in a fundamental piece of civic infrastructure.
With the 2008 national election fresh in our minds, the Obama adminstration should make a bold statement about putting this problem behind us during the next two years.
It would reinforce the Obama brand with relatively low risk.