[ Your Name ] would like to inform you about this article on Complexity Digest 2004.22 - 07.01 http://comdig.unam.mx/index.php?id_issue=2004.22#16559 31-May-2004 [ Your Message ] Who Tests Voting Machines?, NY Times Excerpts: But there is, to begin with, a stunning lack of transparency surrounding this process. Voters have a right to know how voting machine testing is done. Testing companies disagree, routinely denying government officials and the public basic information. Kevin Shelley, the California secretary of state, could not get two companies testing his state's machines to answer even basic questions. One of them, Wyle Laboratories, refused to tell us anything about how it tests, or about its testers' credentials. "We don't discuss our voting machine work," (...). Source: Who Tests Voting Machines?[ http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/30/opinion/30SUN1.html ], NYTimes, 04/05/30 You can discuss this article on Articles Forum http://comdig.unam.mx/topic.php?id_article=16559