“Sanity prevailed,” said Michael Greenberger, a University of Maryland law professor and founder of its Center for Health and Homeland Security. “If this system had been adopted, Maryland would have had a voting system that was the most subject to fraud in the country.”

Board members were reportedly “troubled by an IT security assessment conducted for the state by a firm that has never performed Internet security tests on election systems” and “didn’t study voter fraud risks at the front end of the voting system where ballots are requested online.”