Hackers, Public Differ Greatly On E-voting

cweditor writes "Sorry to be touting one of my own Computerworld stories, but I only covered it because I found it so interesting. The Ponemon Institute surveyed 2,933 members of the general public and then 100 DEFCON and Black Hat attendees to get their views on electronic voting. 'The degree of difference was startling,' said director Larry Ponemon. It was the biggest split between 'experts and the public he'd ever found. For example, 83% of the experts said e-voting is less or much less secure against election tampering than paper ballots, compared with just 19% of the general public."

Comments

Interesting.....

[boschmorden]

...but were those polled by e-voting machines? :)

no fair

[pizza_milkshake]

it's obvious that the blackhat people tampered with the results of the poll concerning the tamperability of polls

Yeah, well, we're smarter...

[thatguywhoiam]

.. and we know the difference between a superficially rigged voting system that looks secure, and one that is a sham. I mean, these people should really get a clOMIGOD a GIRL

[runs away and hides]

Re:I have said it before, and I will say it again

[hpa]

Or, if you're a conspiracy theorist, one can argue that the politicians, especially the incumbents, want to be able to tamper with ballet result.

Either that or they're just dancing around the issue...

Re:Imagine this.

[Hatta]

• Electing federal, state, local, judicial, school board, etc. and voting on publicly proposed propositions and constitutional amendments. We have hundreds of races all on the same ballot.
  
• Having primary elections with different ballots for different parties, with different rules on who can vote in each race across each state.
  
• Permuting the order of candidates listed in a race to eliminate any first-listing bias.
  

...Automated ballot counting in the U.S. is a must. We don't want to wait till 2020 to learn who is on the school board and who is the 53rd district Judge.


Maybe we just need fewer government officials.