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US Election Voting Machine Issues [catless.ncl.ac.uk]

From the RISKS digest, a concise (and definately not exhaustive) summary of electronic voting issues in the recent US elevtions.

And here is an article about the internals of the Diebold aggregating server:

http://www.blackboxvoting.com/scoop/S00065.htm

If it is true, then it is rediculously scary on so many levels. Using Access is such a bad thing for starters, even if the code is perfect (which apparently it is so not). Do you see your bank storing your data in Microsoft Access? They quite possibly use Sybase, which is bad enough, but they wouldn't dream of using Access.

How did these things ever pass security audits????

07:32 PM, 09 Nov 2004 by Mark Aufflick Permalink

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