CS Students Called In To Monitor E-Voting

An anonymous reader writes, "Electronic voting machines used in Tuesday's elections apparently caused only isolated problems, although watchdog groups say it's too early to give an overall grade to their performance. One county in California, hoping to avoid any technological glitches, hired computer-science graduate students to set up and troubleshoot the machines. The behind-the-scenes look revealed some warning signs of e-voting." From the article: "The county election official expected many elderly poll workers to be confused by the technology, so she recruited... 59 computer-science graduate students from [UC] Davis to help poll workers troubleshoot the machines on Election Day."

Comments

Shooting the messengers?

[Nicolay77]

I believe they only want to identificate and send to jail anyone who can point out the flaws of the electronic voting systems.

"Sir you published a way to change the votes in your web site, and that is clearly an act of terrorism. You are under arrest!"

So in the future no one would even try to publish that kind of results.