This is an excellent, and simple, analysis
of the dangers of eVoting.
From the conclusion:
| Electronic voting machines present an opportunity for fraud in the form of widespread subtle manipulations. The master copy of the voting machine software can be programmed to misrecord or misreport one or a few chosen ballots. Where an election saboteur formerly needed to individually alter thousands of ballots, he or she now only need introduce a small change in the master copy of the voting software, which will be deployed on all of the electronic voting machines. As Mercuri noted, “Whereas earlier technologies required that election fraud be perpetrated at one polling place or machine at a time, the proliferation of similarly programmed e-voting systems invites opportunities for large-scale manipulation of elections.â€[5] Our analysis demonstrates that even a trivial example of this kind of fraud can be effective. |
Dare I say it: should we be surprised if Bush wins on Diebold voting machines, where public review of the code running on them has not been allowed?
And they call the US a democracy. Bah. There is no democracy without an open, secure voting process and a healthy, vigorous media to keep the public informed. Instead, we have a closed, broken voting process and a corrupt, biased media content to spin.
Hopefully, my vote will count the way I intend it to count.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/ballot/travis.asp
Nick, that was a Tech Report from Yale, not a bunch of internet rumour.
Read it, and then decide if your URL even applies.
Erm I did read it! It wasnt supposed to be a link falsifying your statement rather backing it up in some way, maybe should have posted the original site, but posted that one as it had a nice bit of write up
I know it’s not talking about malicious hacking of the software, but still shows flaws in the e-voting process as it stands, problems that seem still to exist as people realise the last screen telling them their vote went for the wrong party!
See! Why didn’t you say that in the first place!
Time is money