Members of Congress ask GAO to investigate e-voting

By Michael Hardy, Federal Computer Week, May 13, 2004



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Thirteen members of the House of Representatives have asked the General Accounting Office to investigate electronic voting and the security and reliability of voting machines.



In a letter sent today to Comptroller General David Walker, the members write that the topic concerns "a critical aspect of American democracy — the ability of Americans to have confidence that the votes they cast in an election will be counted accurately and fairly."



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Government Reform Committee chair Tom Davis (R-Va.) and ranking minority member Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), signed the letter, as did Judiciary Committee chair F. James Sensenbrenner Jr. (R-Wisc.) and ranking minority member John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.)



The other signers are:



* William Lacy Clay (D-Mo.)

* John Larson (D-Conn.)

* Doug Ose (R-Calif.)

* Todd Russell Platts (R-Pa.)

* Adam Putnam (R-Fla.)

* Illeana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.)

* Robert Scott (D-Va.)

* Christopher Shays (R-Conn.)

* Michael R. Turner (R-Ohio)