California Electronic Voting Update
News:
Electronic voting systems used throughout California still aren’t good enough to be trusted with the state’s elections, Secretary of State Debra Bowen said Saturday.
While Bowen has been putting tough restrictions and new security requirements on the use of the touch screen machines, she admitted having doubts as to whether the electronic voting systems will ever meet the standards she believes are needed in California.
I’ve written a lot on this issue.
EDITED TO ADD (12/5): Ed Felten comments.
HAL • December 5, 2007 2:42 PM
The machines are fine. The problem is the software. According to The Register, “The source code of the software that is used for online e-voting in the Netherlands has been made public by OSOSS, a Dutch association that promotes the use of open source software in government.”
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/23/open_source_voting_software/
Here in the USA it’s called a tragicomedy http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/05/10/us_e_voting/
All e\voting code should be open source.
It seems simple enough to deploy secure voting systems once you have the hardware. They have that, so there’s just the software problem.