E-Voting Tests Get Failing Grade

[flyingfysh]

From Wired, at http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,65535,00.html:

In 1996, a federal testing lab responsible for evaluating voting systems in the United States examined the software for a new electronic voting machine made by I-Mark Systems of Omaha, Nebraska.

The tester included a note in the lab's report praising the system for having the best voting software he had ever seen, particularly the security and use of encryption.

Doug Jones, Iowa's chief examiner of voting equipment and a computer scientist at the University of Iowa, was struck by this note. Usually testers are careful to be impartial.

But Jones was not impressed with the system. Instead, he found poor design that used an outdated encryption scheme proven to be insecure. He later wrote that such a primitive system "should never have come to market."

The rest is at http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,65535,00.html

[Village Idiot]

1. No shit.

I honestly cannot believe USAsians put up with this. It's absolutely unbelievable that in the USA you cannot vote and be assured that yuor vote will be counted properly for the candidate(s) you voted for.

Patently absurd.