NIST Warns the Electronic Voting ‘Cannot be Made Secure’

December 1, 2006 by Anil P.
Filed under Security, Tech

Makes you wonder what happens to your vote after you leave the booth. And if NIST (National Institutes of Standards and Technology) is saying this, we’d better take it seriously.

Paperless electronic voting machines used throughout the Washington region and much of the country “cannot be made secure,” according to draft recommendations issued this week by a federal agency that advises the U.S. Election Assistance Commission.
NIST says in its report that the lack of a paper trail for each vote “is one of the main reasons behind continued questions about voting system security and diminished public confidence in elections.” The report repeats the contention of the computer security community that “a single programmer could ‘rig’ a major election.”

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