Common Cause Pennsylvania has joined with several other reform groups to file a lawsuit against the state's Secretary of the Commonwealth, asking that new electronic voting machines be replaced with machines that produce a voter-verifiable paper record.
They say [Secretary of the Commonwealth Pedro Cortes] and his agency oversaw the certification of seven types of ATM-style electronic voting machines that do not adequately safeguard against hacking and are vulnerable to computer malfunctions...
...The plaintiffs are calling for voting systems with a paper record of each vote cast for the purposes of an independent recount, a requirement they say is guaranteed in the state's election code in its mandate for a "permanent physical record of each vote cast."
"The machines certified in Pennsylvania are inherently unreliable," said Michael Churchill, a lawyer at the Public Interest Law Center in Philadelphia, which is part of the law team handling the case. "They can be tampered with. They can malfunction and have a history of malfunctions which have disenfranchised voters all across the country."
Common Cause recently named Pennsylvania as one of the most at-risk states for compromised election results. If this lawsuit is successful, the Commonwealth can come a long way towards moving off that list.
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