Electronic voting security: fixing the right problems
Thursday, July 8th, 2004I’ve taken up the topic of electronic voting security on several previous occasions. Now The Register presents a well-thought-out article on getting electronic voting security right. The main point is not the obvious one:
[T]he paper trail remains security fool’s gold, made popular merely because it’s easily grasped. What’s needed instead are commonsense security protocols to make e-voting systems resistant to tampering, to make it evident when tampering has occurred, and to make it possible to stage a reliable recount.
