A new biometrics-based voting machine, with an additional apparatus that does the voter's fingerprint recognition before allowing the ballot to be cast, started being used in 2012.
That begins with security practices at boards of elections and polling places, documented chain of custody, and now procedures to make secure voting machine delivery.
Voting machine vendors, election officials and prominent computer scientists agreed to try to end ongoing controversy over electronic voting by attempting to draft uniform standards.
After eight months in office, the courts threw out the results of the 1997 election due to problems with a voting machine that affected the results for the second seat.