Comments on: With improvements, e-voting could be good, says researcher.

Researcher who found vulnerabilities in California's e-voting systems looks ahead to better auditing.

[n3td3v]

Cnet can you explain a few things

"Topics:Criminal Hackers, Security"

Why is this marked under criminal hackers? I see no convicted criminal hackers mentioned in this story. Looks like cnet have screwed this one up. Who are you calling a criminal hacker? I can't even see you mention a criminal hacker in your blog entry. Please enlighten us where this deserves to have the criminal hacker tag inserted. You need to be charged with something before you can be called a criminal, even folks on the internet who are called "cyber criminals" aren't in reality. Cyber criminals likely have no criminal record in real life, its just the media who brand people criminals. Yes they may be bad guys, but as for "criminal" that has no legal standing as a publisher, because no one has been sentenced for any unlawful act. So to round up, its wrong for you to mark this blog entry criminal hackers, and its wrong for you in general to mention in quotes and news articles about such things as "cyber criminals may try to exploit X". In reality, the majority of bad guys who hack, research and crack things have no criminal record, so how can the media generalise in who it is the attackers are? They may be malicious hackers(the people who break into things) but criminals they cannot be called.

[rtatlow]

DRE Voting Machines

By their nature, fraud is undetectable with paperless DRE voting machines. A paper trail provides some detectablility, but not as easy as optical scanned ballots with random sampling.

[lewac]

there's a better way...

use your computer. you'd probably need to boot into a distro of linux though then launch a secure app out of there specifically designed for voting at ALL levels of government (from your local HOA all the way to national and eventually even international elections).

[Phil-IT]

Movie: "hacking democracy"

Great yet scary movie I saw last week.
Very interesting about this topic.

[mhinnewyork]

Rebuttal from Dr. Rebecca Mercuri

For a rebuttal to this, see
Electronic voting and partial audits - guest blog by Rebecca Mercuri
http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13554_1-9876062-33.html
Michael Horowitz