The Security Mentor

There's a good bill in the House that would fix the worst problems of today's voting machines. It outlaws secret voting systems and requires the authoritative record to be on auditable, guardable, tamper-evident paper.

It's H.R. 811, the Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act of 2007. If you go to http://www.house.gov, you can get contact information for your Congressperson at the top left.

It's not perfect: not everybody will check computer-printed ballots: but it's a huge step up, especially since it makes it easier to check that machines are honest.