The Security Mentor

The US isn't the only country to have insecure and unreliable electronic voting machines. In the US, elections officials have responded by accusing a critic of "undermining democracy" and by firing employees who found problems.

Head across the Atlantic and see how people who care about democracy handled it. The Dutch government, after a citizen's group reported what the problems were,

• Ordered replacement of all software
• Ordered checks of all hardware
• Ordered serious seals, iron instead of tape, on the machines
• Preventing field reprogramming
• Arranged for independent certification
• Will pull machines at random after the election and check them

Is your jurisdiction doing the same? Ask them why not.