The Security Mentor

The Brennan Center for Justice together with nationally known security experts, specialists from the National Institute for Standards and Technology, Lawrence Livermore, and major universities did a study of electronic voting machines.

Their conclusions were unanimous and scathing. Here are a few highlights.

all three of the nation’s most commonly purchased electronic voting systems are vulnerable to software attacks that could threaten the integrity of a state or national election

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All of the most commonly purchased electronic voting systems have significant security and reliability vulnerabilities

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The report called into question basic assumptions of many election officials by finding that the systems in 14 states using voter-verified paper records but doing so without requiring automatic audits are of “questionable security value.”

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The vast majority of states have not implemented election procedures or countermeasures to detect a software attack even though the most troubling vulnerabilities of each system can be substantially remedied.

What you can do is to bend the ear of your local officials and make sure they realize the public cares about getting voting machines that are at least as auditable as ATMs, and at least as carefully certified as gambling machines. Today they're not even close. You might also call your Congressperson and ask for a yes vote on H.R. 550, national legislation to fix some of the worse problems.