GAO Report on Electronic Voting
Findings and Recommendations
The following are highlights of the Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) September 2005 report on electronic voting systems.Findings While electronic voting systems hold promise for improving the election process, numerous entities have raised concerns about their security and reliability, citing instances of weak security controls, system design flaws, inadequate system version control, inadequate security testing, incorrect system configuration, poor security management, and vague or incomplete voting system standards. It is important to note that many of these concerns were based on specific system makes and models or a specific jurisdiction’s election, and there is no consensus among election officials and other…
