Jewish Times: Ballot Boxing. On voting machines in the US.
Ballot Boxing
is an interesting article in the Jewish Times on electronic voting
machines and their ‘security’ in the US. Despite the security issues
electronic voting machines will still be used in the upcoming
elections.
Considering how close the call was during the last US elections and how close it will be again according to current predictions
[via The Age], I was really hoping that some other countries would
suggest that the UN needs to sends observers to the US to verify the
elections. Maybe Michael Moore‘s “Keyboard Army” and “Video Army” (he is calling for volunteers on his site) will help with the observation on election day.
Even though the author gets several issues wrong (he says for example,
that an open source code makes a program less secure), the main issue
is very apparent. The Diebold voting system (at least in the version of
the source that leaked to the net) is far from secure.