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RSA: U.S. Presidential Election Can Be Hacked

Robert McMillan writes on Computerworld.com.au:

This year, the US will pick a new president using electronic voting machines that can be hacked, security experts said this week at the RSA Conference in San Francisco.

As the November election approaches, the question before officials is not how to fix known bugs in their e-voting systems, but rather, how best to check them for fraud, said David Wagner, an associate professor with the University of California, Berkeley's computer science department.

Wagner was part of the team that audited California's voting systems during the state's review of electronic voting, and the problems his team found affect counties across the US. "The three systems we looked at are three of the most widely used around the nation," he said during an e-voting panel discussion at the show. "They're going to be using them in the 2008 elections; they're still going to have the same vulnerabilities we found."

posted by Fergie @ 4/10/2008 06:11:00 PM