To Win An Election, Just Control The Machines

Touch screen voting may sound like a good idea-no more hanging
chads-but it has one glaring problem: Without a paper ballot,
there’s no way to double-check that votes have been handled and
counted fairly. ‘Voting machines are just as subject to program
bugs as other computers, and very tempting for computer hackers,’
says David Dill, a Stanford computer scientist and founder of
VerifiedVoting.org, who is leading a campaign to oppose touch
screen voting machines across the country. Just three companies
make the machines that will report most of the 2004 election
results. Many irregularities have already been reported in states
that used touch screens in 2002.

  • Published on Sep 1, 2003
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