Wallach noted that a voting machine ought to be secure no matter who tries to hack the system. The notion that a would-be hacker must first be properly certified and possess special qualifications (like a five-day online course), and the vendors need advance notice becomes utterly irrelevant in cyberspace.
''If someone is malicious and his goal is to throw the election, they're not going to ask permission.'' Wallach said. |
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Joan Brunwasser is a co-founder of Citizens for Election Reform (CER) which since 2005 existed for the sole purpose of raising the public awareness of the critical need for election reform. Our goal: to restore fair, accurate, transparent, secure elections where votes are cast in private and counted in public. Because the problems with electronic (computerized) voting systems include a lack of (more...)