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More E-Voting Software Leaks Surface

Posted by simoniker on from the cheating-for-election-and-profit dept.

Christopher Soghoian writes "Sound like something you've seen before? Wired News reports that the software which runs Sequoia's AVC Edge voting machines has been accidentally placed on another company's publicly available FTP server, although this time it's the binary, rather than the source that's been leaked. Machines running this software were used in California's Riverside County for the 2000 presidential election and for last month's California gubernatorial recall election. The system also has been used in counties in Florida and Washington state."

2 of 283 comments (clear)

  1. May be they should outsource it from India by thehive · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It is ironic that a country like US is struggling to implement Electronic Voting while India which has the second largest population and high illiteracy rate is already using them. In fact they are planning to go all electronic this time. The problem seems to be from that fact that the electronic machines used in india are not fully automated as the ones used here and they are never connected to computers to count the votes

  2. paper ballots by snarkh · · Score: 0, Redundant


    Why do we need software to vote? What exactly are the advantages? It is more expensive much less transparent and prone to potentially catastrophic failures and tampering.