Hank Johnson: “I will introduce today the Verifying Official Totals for Elections Act, also known as the VOTE Act. Electronic voting…”

“I will introduce today the Verifying Official Totals for Elections Act, also known as the VOTE Act. Electronic voting machines are vulnerable to poor design and tampering, and there is currently no way to verify the accuracy of an electronic vote count. The VOTE Act will ensure the integrity of our voting machines system by requiring any software used in an electronic voting system for any Federal election to be deposited in the National Software Reference Library. Depositing the software in the National Software Reference Library will allow the software to be available for review in the event of an election contest or recount. The VOTE Act is definitely needed. We are 97 days away from a crucial election and, according to a recent report, half the States have inadequate post-audit election procedures for electronic voting machines. It also found that a quarter of States have post-audit election procedures that need improvement. Further, the report found that in every national election in the past decade, computerized voting systems have failed, machines did not start or failed in the middle of voting, memory cards could not read, and votes were mistallied. I'm sure that you all who are computer literate out there have had a computer and you were working on it and suddenly it froze up.…”