Cybersecurity Expert Says Nationwide Use of Computerized Voting Poses Risk.
AScribe Law News Service, November, 2006
Byline: Purdue University
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Nov. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- Many of the paperless computerized voting systems adopted in wake of the "hanging chad" presidential election controversy in 2000 have the potential to create more problems than they solve, according to an information security expert at Purdue University.
More than 30 percent of the electorate will use new technology to vote on Nov. 7. In addition to the new voting equipment, 49 states have introduced new statewide, computerized databases to determine who is eligible to vote. According to Eugene Spafford, executive director of the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS), the technology may be problematic, possibly causing a debacle...
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