A trade group representing Diebold & others is working on a PR offensive designed to counter critics’ charges that the machines are unreliable, insecure, and tailor-made to facilitate election fraud. This, presumably, in lieu of manufacturing a secure, auditable system that we could, you know, TRUST. From the story:

David Dill, a computer science professor at Stanford University who runs a website called VerifiedVoting.org , said: “The voting machine industry doesn’t have a PR problem. It has a technology problem. It is impossible to determine whether their machines, in their current form, can be trusted with our elections.” Instead of trying to convince people the machines are safe, the industry should fix the technology and restore public confidence by “making the voting process transparent, improving certification standards for the equipment and (ensuring) there is some way to do a recount if there is a question about an election,” Dill said.

In a surprise move, however, Diebold has reversed its position on issuing paper receipts to voters.