E-Vote Protest Gains Momentum

[dnuggett]

The story is a little old 10/29, but I haven't seen it posted yet.

"Swarthmore College students embroiled in a legal battle against voting-machine maker Diebold Election Systems have received a groundswell of support from universities and colleges nationwide. Students at Harvard, MIT, Carnegie Mellon, Duke University, the University of California at Berkeley and at least 10 other campuses have joined the fight for public access to internal memos obtained from a Diebold server in March. "



Link to the story

 

[privatebreyer]

There will never be a perfect voting system.

That said, a bit of common sense should be used in designing them. Such as not having it hooked up to the internet.

 

[prometheusxls]

The article refers to students posting internal comunique about the voting machines, not the machines actually hooked to the internet themselves.

 

[privatebreyer]

I know. There complaining about the faults of the system. Security is one of them.