Ministry of the Interior in the Netherlands decided last week not to adopt electronic voting machines. The decision was made after reviewing extensive research which indicated that none of the available machines offered adequate privacy and security safeguards.

Related StoriesReport: post-election audits needed to ensure election integrity
E-voting reform bill scheduled for House vote this week
Paper trail voting report hammers straw men, its own credibility
E-voting vendor blocks security audit with legal threats
Developing new equipment that could meet the government's standards was deemed too costly and challenging. Instead, voters will go old-school: marking their choices on paper ballots which will be tabulated by machines. The government has also ordered periodic testing of the tabulation machines in order to ensure that they are consistently reliable.