Jolted Over Electronic Voting (washingtonpost.com): "
Report's Security Warning Shakes Some States' Trust
The Virginia State Board of Elections had a seemingly simple task before it: Certify an upgrade to the state's electronic voting machines. But with a recent report by Johns Hopkins University computer scientists warning that the system's software could easily be hacked into and election results tampered with, the once perfunctory vote now seemed to carry the weight of democracy and the people's trust along with it. "
As much as I love computers, if we ever switch to electronic voting our democracy is finished.
Report's Security Warning Shakes Some States' Trust
The Virginia State Board of Elections had a seemingly simple task before it: Certify an upgrade to the state's electronic voting machines. But with a recent report by Johns Hopkins University computer scientists warning that the system's software could easily be hacked into and election results tampered with, the once perfunctory vote now seemed to carry the weight of democracy and the people's trust along with it. "
As much as I love computers, if we ever switch to electronic voting our democracy is finished.
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