At tomorrow’s “Super Tuesday” presidential primaries, voters in California, Maryland and georgia will be voting using the oft-maligned Diebold e-voting machines.“Electronic Vote Faces Big Test of Its Security
“People complain about hanging chads,” said Aviel D. Rubin, technical director of the Information Security Institute at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and a co-author of the first study that found security flaws in the Diebold machines. “But if an electronic machine has malicious code in it, it’s possible that all of the chads are hanging — and then you have to question every vote.”
NY Times:Graphic: Counties Using Electronic Voting Systems
While the US hesistates to fully adopt electronic voting, India plans to have its first fully-electronic general election vote. BBC News: Gearing up for India’s electronic election. India’s 668 million registered voters will use more than 500,000 electronic voting machines from two suppliers: Bangalore-based Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) and Electronics Corporation of India, based in Hyderabad.
