Sent to you by Regis via Google Reader: Dan Wallach on Electronic
Voting Machines via Schneier on Security by schneier on 7/2/08
It's been a while since I've written about electronic voting machines,
but Dan Wallach has an excellent blog post about the current line of
argument from the voting machine companies and why it's wrong.
Unsurprisingly, the vendors and their trade organization are spinning
the results of these studies, as best they can, in an attempt to
downplay their significance. Hopefully, legislators and election
administrators are smart enough to grasp the vendors’ behavior for what
it actually is and take appropriate steps to bolster our election
integrity. Until then, the bottom line is that many jurisdictions in
Texas and elsewhere in the country will be using e-voting equipment
this November with known security vulnerabilities, and the procedures
and controls they are using will not be sufficient to either prevent or
detect sophisticated attacks on their e-voting equipment. While there
are procedures with the capability to detect many of these attacks
(e.g., post-election auditing of voter-verified paper records), Texas
has not certified such equipment for use in the state. Texas’s DREs are
simply vulnerable to and undefended against attacks.
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