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Re: Diebold Global Election Management System (GEMS) Backdoor Account Al

from [Simon] Network Security [Permanent Link]
Subject: Re: Diebold Global Election Management System (GEMS) Backdoor Account Allows Authenticated Users to Modify Votes
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 21:20:09 +0100 
Marco S Hyman wrote:
>
> All I demand from a voting system is that votes can be voter verified.
> That's not true of ANY voting machine regardless of who writes the code
> unless there is a hard copy audit trail.   If there is a hard copy audit
> trail then it doesn't make any difference who wrote the code.

How do you know that the software generating the audit trail is playing fair if it's closed source?

Sometimes, IMHO, there's just no alternative to pen and paper. Surely the manual method of ticking a box and having multiple human vote counters checking ballots is the best option going, even if it is more expensive. (I confess I've no idea what costs are involved either way.)

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