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Avi Rubin of Johns Hopkins University has led the charge questioning how secure our electronic voting machines really are.

This abstract from the paper published in May 2004 states:

"We present a security analysis of the source code to one such machine used in a significant share of the market. Our analysis shows that this voting system is far below even the most minimal security standards applicable in other contexts. We show that voters, without any insider privileges, can cast unlimited votes without being detected by any mechanisms within the voting terminal software. Furthermore, we show that even the most serious of our outsider attacks could have been discovered and executed without access to the source code."

Professor Rubin went on to actually participate in an election as an election judge in Maryland. Read this first-hand account of the new age of electronic voting before you embrace this new, untested, technology that threatens the sanctity of our democracy.

This is scary, pathetic stuff. So much for military strength computer security. I guess paper or machine ballots can be tampered with too, but why spend all the money developing some half-assed, insecure system?

Hey - is there such thing as an electronic hanging chad?

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