More Concerns About E-Voting


Wired News: Activists Find More E-Vote Flaws

Voting activist Bev Harris and a computer scientist say they found more vulnerabilities in an electronic voting system made by Diebold Election Systems, weaknesses that could allow someone to alter votes in the election this November.
Diebold said Harris’ claims are without merit and that if anyone did manage to change votes, a series of checks and balances that election officials perform at the end of an election would detect the changes.

Wired News: E-Vote Fears Soar in Swing States

just as the Kerry and Bush campaigns are spending most of their efforts in those states where neither holds a heavy margin in the polls, voting advocacy groups concerned with the integrity of voting technology are devoting their resources toward the states which matter most.

NY Times letters to the editor discuss The Real Problem With Electronic Voting: “It’s our election! We should own the software. Paper ballots are a low-tech, fairly easy fix for this election, even now. We need them.”

Andrew Raff @andrewraff