Why We Fight
We are still fighting about voting machines even after the auditors spent all their federal HAVA money because electronic voting is NOT SECURE. This is the first of many posts that will cite the expert evidence on the need for better voting equipment and better auditing procedures.
Today’s testimony comes from an interview with Dr. Herbert Thompson, computer security expert and participant in the Hursti hack. The interview appeared Monday in Computerworld:
Is the security in e-voting up to the standards that business executives would demand in their applications? No way. Definitely not. Five years ago, yes, but in the current climate, no. These guys are betting their critical business processes on software. They need to consider who might do harm to that system. This level of rigor isn’t applied to e-voting systems.
What should be done? There should be much more severe security-testing requirements. The key is you need to raise awareness that these vulnerabilities do exist and can be exploited, and you need a way of measuring security.
Some may think this battle is over in Iowa, but we have not yet begun to fight!