The Security Mentor

Toasters don't set your house on fire because the industry has a set of standards and a testing body, Underwriter's Laboratories, to run the tests.

Shouldn't we be equally careful about the machines that count our votes?

The good news is that people are already putting together standards and tests for electronic voting machines. All the right people are involved. Reputable voting machine suppliers, advocates for the disabled, and some of the top security researchers are working together to write standards for voting equipment.

You might want to write to your legislators and suggest that your state should only buy equipment that gets a good rating on the new tests.