[Chad Fairbanks]

What? A woman programmer? Never heard of such nonsense ;0)

[E. Pluribus Unum]

http://www.verifiedvoting.org/

[Dr Warmoose]

Oh how I love the smoke and mirrors here. Get the neo-luddites out to worry and fret over trivial matters of 1 billion to 1 odds, and completely ignore the fact that the dead, the corrupt, the illegal and the felon regularly vote multiple times in any given election.

The problem is not necessarily the software, it is in who is permitted to vote, and who tabulates the vote.

Let me count the votes or operate the voting process and for the best price I will deliver to your candidate the victory.

[Servant of the Nine]

Someone will break the system, and Georgia or some other state is gonna wake up the morning after election to find that some unemployed hacker living in his mother's basement has been elected Governor. Maybe then they will understand that no system without a paper trail is verifiable and trustworthy.

So9

[taxcontrol]

They need to offer a $100,000 reward contest. Reward divided by all who are able to crack the system in 24 hours. This would be done in a controled environment, say in a wharehouse with the hackers being monitored and observed. Then use the results to shut down all manner of exploits used. Might need to run several of these contests.

When there is a set where no one is able to crack the system, then up the prize to $200,000 only paid to the first person to crack.

[NEPA]

Representatives from two U.S. senators and three members of Congress attended the seminar, but most of the questions were posed by Jekot, who describes herself as a political independent, and Hugh Esco, political coordinator of the Green Party of Georgia.

Jekot is not a political independent. She's a flaming liberal Dem and a popular poster on DU.

Liberals are absolutely convinced electronic voting is a republican conspiracy to steal elections. I don't trust electronic voting myself but it isn't the republicans I worry about.

[boris]

The system is designed to be vulnerable and hackable.

The Democrats will not permit interference with the deceased and illegal alien vote.

Try to have the voter rolls in your state purged of dead and/or non-resident former citizens of the state. Just try.

--Boris

[Publius6961]

Brit Williams, a retired Kennesaw State University professor who helped design the state's touch-screen security system. He put the odds of corrupting the software undetected at 1 billion to one.

These academics, legends in their own minds, seem to be a dime a dozen.

D'OH!

Anyone seeking to compromise electronic voting would not announce it ahead of time!

I guess this "perfessor" sort of skipped math and statistics? Inquiring minds...

[exDemMom]

But there remains a bill in Congress, introduced by U.S. Rep. Rush Holt (D-N.J.), to require that all voting machines produce a paper ballot that would be used as a back-up system in all elections. In any dispute, paper ballots would become the final arbiter.

Hmm, this is an absolutely sensible idea, and from a demonRAT, no less. Must be the common sense normally associated with the name "Rush" is rubbing off on him.

I would, however, take the idea a step further and insist that the paper ballots be tabulated every election, and not just in the case of a dispute. I don't trust a completely electronic system; how can anyone possibly know when a bit has been surreptitiously changed from "0" to "1"? Little electronic eraser marks? I don't think so!