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Spafford: E-voting Still Has Security Issues

The debate over the security of electronic voting machines hasn’t gone away after November’s elections in the U.S.

By Dave Gradijan

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But we have no way of knowing what the voter intent was because there was no independent audit trail.

One of the ways we can capture attention is talk about security failures. The people at local elections level, when we have raised these arguments, have taken a sort of personal umbrage. First, we’re calling into question their judgment for buying the machines in the first place, and second, we’re implying that their procedures are faulty or the people involved are dishonest.

That isn’t going to enlist their support in moving to better systems. We need to convey to them that it’s in the interest of the population to have greater confidence in elections.

-By Grant Gross, IDG News Service

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