[lit-ideas] How safe is your vote?

  • From: Ursula Stange <Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 09:34:10 -0400

TRENTON, N.J. (Sept. 14) - A Princeton University computer science professor added new fuel Wednesday to claims that electronic voting machines used across much of the country are vulnerable to hacking that could alter vote totals or disable machines.

In a paper posted on the university's Web site, Edward Felten and two graduate students described how they had tested a Diebold AccuVote-TS machine they obtained, found ways to quickly upload malicious programs and even developed a computer virus able to spread such programs between machines. 

http://articles.news.aol.com/news/_a/princeton-professor-hacks-electronic/20060913233009990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001

So far, in Canada, we still use old-fashioned pencil and paper. Not that that can't be manipulated as well. But it feels safer.
Ursula

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