E-Voting Scary

Reports in the alternative media about the move to all-electronic voting are scary. The removal of paper trails combined with a lack of openness on e-vote technology can cause Orwellian nightmares. Can the Chronicle look into our local voting system to see what kind of safeguards we have to insure that our votes are really being counted?

   [Assistant News Editor Lee Nichols replies: We already have. Go to austinchronicle.com and do a search on either "eSlate" or "Hart InterCivic." While the lack of a paper trail is indeed troubling, it is worth noting that many of the alleged security flaws brought up by e-voting critics of other systems do not exist in the Hart InterCivic system used by Travis County.]