Texas Safe Voting is working to bring about safe and reliable evoting, including a voter-verifiable paper trail.
Organizational support for Texas Safe Voting is provided by the ACLU of Texas. Donations to support Texas Safe Voting can be made to: ACLU Cyberliberties Project, 1210 Rosewood St., Austin TX 78702.
A front page story in the Austin American Statesman on Sunday, June 13 by
by Kirk Ladendorf covers growing opposition to unverified voting in Texas. Registration is required to view the story online.
Electronic voting, once hailed as insurance against any more hanging chad disasters, has become a target for a growing group of grass-roots activists who say the systems can't be trusted and are a threat to democracy.In Austin and across the Internet, critics and some computer experts are spreading their convictions that electronic voting systems aren't secure and could allow elections to be hijacked.
The criticism has brought the fledgling electronic voting industry to a near-standstill. Election officials in several states have halted use of some systems and required new testing and changes for others.