Levy: Electronic voting machines not ready for '08

Why am I not surprised?

:eyes:

Securing (Or Not) Your Right to Vote

By Steven Levy
Newsweek

Sept. 10, 2007 issue - Next year we'll have the second presidential election since the horribly botched one in 2000. Can we expect better? An answer comes from the highest election official in the most populated state in the Union. Worried about a string of reported vulnerabilities, Debra Bowen, California's secretary of State, had asked computer scientists at the University of California to conduct a "top to bottom" analysis of the thousands of touchscreen electronic voting machines in use in the Golden State. Next year millions of voters will use these systems, manufactured by the industry's largest suppliers, not only in California but in many other states as well.

What did the study reveal? "Things were worse than I thought," says Bowen. "There were far too many ways that people with ill intentions could compromise the voting systems without detection." Some of those security holes could, in theory, allow a dirty trickster with access to a single machine to infiltrate the central vote-counting system and covertly toss an election to the wrong candidate.

It was the most devastating confirmation to date of what security experts have been saying for years: vulnerabilities in election machines are so severe that voters have no way of knowing for sure that the choices they enter into the touchscreens and ballots will actually be counted. "The studies show that these machines are basically poison," says Avi Rubin, a Johns Hopkins computer-science professor and voting-security expert.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20546322/site/newsweek/

Thanks for posting it.

Hekate

Really, he could spend the extra year deciding whether to wear black or brown shoes.

They need to be aware that they could become the next Kerry.

To wit:



Quite so....snip...

Cut to HR811... and rep holt's bill.



Unfortunately...



Or in other words the poison of DREs - uncountable votes - is perpetuated by the only apparent solution till at least 2012. By which time the USA will have been without legitimate democratic government for over a decade.

Where is Andy when we need him? :-(

Another sickening election cheating scenario awaits us all unless we get a candidate that overwhelms the odds.

for anything other than a vehicle for election fraud.

To casually dismiss this as a problem than can wait is the epitome of dumbassery.

On edit: K&R and thanks for posting this. :)