Diebold Voting Machines Susceptible to Fraud
[These are very likely to be generic to any system, as is mentioned later in the article. This is just one more hobbyhorse I’ve taken up recently, as the cluelessness of the average bureaucrat, lawmaker and public policy person with regards to the inherently insecure nature of computing systems has become painfully evident. See also http://avirubin.com/vote/ for source documents and whitepaper in PDF format. -Thomas]
Computer Voting Is Open to Easy Fraud, Experts Say
Computer Voting Is Open to Easy Fraud, Experts Say
By JOHN SCHWARTZ
he software that runs many high-tech voting machines contains serious flaws that would allow voters to cast extra votes and permit poll workers to alter ballots without being detected, computer security researchers said yesterday.
“We found some stunning, stunning flaws,” said Aviel D. Rubin, technical director of the Information Security Institute at Johns Hopkins University, who led a team that examined the software from Diebold Election Systems, which has about 33,000 voting machines operating in the United States.
The systems, in which voters are given computer-chip-bearing smart cards to operate the machines, could be tricked by anyone with $100 worth of computer equipment, said Adam Stubblefield, a co-author of the paper.
